Re: Console handling (was: Re: Let's vote for PnP on 2.2)

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
14 Dec 1997 02:45:31 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971213194834.90L-100000@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org>
By author: James Mastros <root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Alan Cox wrote:
> > All you need is an ioctl() that gives a list of in/out/memory operations
> > to do, and at the same time commits a "recovery" set of operations into
> > kernel space to be run on screen switch back.
> >
> > Alan
>
> Didn't Linux have that back when having different # of lines in different
> VTs? (In a more limited form, naturaly, since the modes on different VTs
> were, well, less different).
>

Linux has never had different number of lines on different VTs.

-hpa

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