i really like this idea.  i need scrollback for my consoles!

   David Brownlee wrote:
   > 
   >         Just tried this out, and it works really well, though I did find a
   >         couple of small points:
   >             a) Switching virtual consoles resets the scroll buffer
   
   that's not a bug, that's a feature :). There are basically to way
   to implement console scrolling: using VGA memory to store the buffer 
   (Linux) or allocating KVM memory (FreeBSD). I prefered the second one
   because I like to scroll back as much as I want (you have no physical 
   limitations). But in order not to wasted to much KVM the scroll
   buffer is shared among virtual screens. The other way would be to
   allocate a scroll buffer for each virtual screen but that seem to much
   a waste. BTW the behaviour is the same as FreeBSD a Linux...

i don't like this.  i don't care what freebsd or linux do.  this behaviour
is totally alien to me (a heavy screen user).  at the very least, i'd expect
the scroll buffer to stay alive across switches, but i'd prefer that each
VT had it's own scroll buffer, allocated out of KVM (pageable?) as you said.


.mrg.