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This is the second release of kmscon. It's again a development release but should now be good enough so it can run on any linux system. Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
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= KMSCON Release News =
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CHANGES WITH 2: (development release)
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* Build scripts were improved and simplified. They also allow much more
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control about the build process now. The source was split into several
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different libraries.
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* Added llog.h helper for logging in libraries.
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* Eloop was moved into separate library and supports more more
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use-cases now. It can be used as a standalone project.
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* Terminal emulator (vte.c) was improved a lot and can run vim now.
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* Console layer was rewritten and is now much faster and much more
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standards compliant.
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* Uterm monitor was added. The monitor uses udev and systemd-logind to
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watch the system for new seats and devices. This allows us to run on
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multiple seats simultaneously and being hotplug-capable.
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* Uterm vt layer was added. This simply wraps the older VT layer so we
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can switch to different VT systems on-the-fly.
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* New uterm video backends: The fbdev backend is now fully functional
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kmscon can run on any fbdev device now. Furthermore, the dumb backend
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was added which is simply an unaccelerated DRM backend that should
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work even without EGL, GL, gbm, etc.
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* New 2D rendering API. In case OpenGL is not available, we now allow
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blitting images into the framebuffer. This is used for fbdev and dumb
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video devices.
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* Font renderer now depends on pango. This is is needed only until I get
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the time to rewrite the freetype backend. But for now we depend on
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pango so have full font support.
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* lots of small fixes
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CHANGES WITH 1: (development release)
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* First kmscon release. For testing purposes only. Includes a rendering
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pipeline and a very rundimentary terminal emulator.
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