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Hello,

sorry for being ambiguous again - I didn't mean to say that we need
hardware acceleration for virtual consoles - obviously we don't - but
without it things would be slow.

> What we need for multiple console support a la wscons's
> Ctl-Alt-Fx is a  way for wscons to keep a cell array in memory of the
> characters at each  location. As lines scroll, etc, the cell array is
> manipulated as well as  the screen. Whenever we switch consoles, we
> just redraw a different cell  array. When activity happens off-screen,
> we only update the cell array.

Guess what I've been writing since yesterday or so. I got annoyed enough
by at least 4 different drivers implementing virtual consoles with more
or less identical code to write a wrapper that does exactly what you
describe ( instead of having it in each driver... ) and which would
also work with ofb or any other wsdisplay driver.

have fun
Michael

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