Jesse's initial patch commit said:

"At panic time (i.e.  when oops_in_progress is set) we should try a bit
harder to update the screen and make sure output gets to the VT, since
some drivers are capable of flipping back to it.

So make sure we try to unblank and update the display if called from a
panic context."

I've enhanced this to add a flag to the vc that console layer can set to
indicate they want this behaviour to occur.  This also adds support to
fbcon for that flag and adds an fb flag for drivers to indicate they want
to use the support.  It enables this for KMS drivers.
Signed-off-by: NDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Acked-by: NJames Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Add support for setting a global default for whether or not a visible
cursor should be enabled when creating VCs. The default will be to do so,
unless overridden by the user at boot time or by a driver.
Signed-off-by: NMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258143251-5818-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

We have vt_kern.h for this
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

In the past someone gratuitiously borrowed chunks of kernel internal vt
code and dumped them in kernel/power. They have all sorts of deep relations
with the vt code so put them in the vt tree instead
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This is needed and requested in various forms for ConsoleKit, screenblank
handling and the like so do the job with a single interface. Also build the
interface so that unlike VT_WAITACTIVE and friends it won't miss events.

FIXME: Should this be a waitactive ioctl or a new device file you can poll
and read events from. We need the code anyway to fix up the existing broken
wait for console switch logic but the ConsoleKit people would prefer the
new device to the ioctl we have here
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Carry on pushing code out of tty_io when it belongs to other drivers. I'm
not 100% happy with some of this and it will be worth revisiting some of the
exports later when the restructuring work is done.
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This moves it to being a tty operation. That removes special cases and now
also means that resize can be picked up by um and other non vt consoles
which may have a resize operation.
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

drivers/video/console/promcon.c:158: error: implicit declaration of
function 'con_protect_unimap'

Introduced by commit a29ccf6f
("embedded: fix vc_translate operator precedence").
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Cc: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

This fixes a bug in operator precedence in the newly introduced vc_translate
macro.  Without this fix, the translation of some characters on the
kernel console is garbled.

This patch was copied to the e-mail list previously for testing.  Now,
all reports confirm that it works, so this is an official post for
application.
Signed-off-by: NTim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

By turning off the new CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS option and dropping the
associated code and tables from the kernel, we can save about 7KiB.

Taken from linux-tiny project by Tim Bird and mangled further by dwmw2.
Signed-off-by: NTim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

Add a proper prototype for vty_init() in include/linux/vt_kern.h
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

As of now, the kernel defaults to non-unicode and XLATE for the keyboard.
We've been changing this in Fedora, but that requires patching the defaults
in the kernel.

The attached introduces CONFIG_VT_UNICODE, which sets the console in
unicode mode by default on boot, including both the virtual terminal and
the keyboard driver.
Signed-off-by: NBill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

- add comment for unbind_con_driver().
- bind_con_driver() is made private again
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAntonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Allow fbcon to select the primary display adapter using the
fb_is_primary_device() arch-specific helper.  If a a primary adapter is
detected, fbcon will unbind the old adapter from the VT layer, then rebind
using the new adapter.  This requires that bind_/unbind_con_driver() be made
public.

Because this feature may produce unexpected behavior (from the user's POV),
this must be explicitly enabled in Kconfig.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export unbind_con_driver]
Signed-off-by: NAntonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The virtual console driver uses a semaphore as mutex.  Use the mutex API
instead of the (binary) semaphore.
Signed-off-by: NMatthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When the console is in VT_AUTO+KD_GRAPHICS mode, switching to the
SUSPEND_CONSOLE fails, resulting in vt_waitactive() waiting indefinitely or
until the task is interrupted.  This patch tests if a console switch can
occur in set_console() and returns early if a console switch is not
possible.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Johnson <ajohnson@intrinsyc.com>
Acked-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This is such a rare path it took me a while to figure out how to test
this after soring out the locking.

This patch does several things.
- The variables used are moved into a structure and declared in vt_kern.h
- A spinlock is added so we don't have SMP races updating the values.
- Instead of raw pid_t value a struct_pid is used to guard against
  pid wrap around issues, if the daemon to spawn a new console dies.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The current kernel serializes console resizes but does not serialize the
resize against the tty structure updates.  This means that while two
parallel resizes cannot mess up the console you can get incorrect results
reported.

Secondly while doing this I added vc_lock_resize() to lock and resize the
console.  This leaves all knowledge of the console_sem in the vt/console
driver and kicks it out of the tty layer, which is good

Thirdly while doing this I decided I couldn't stand "disallocate" any
longer so I switched it to "deallocate".
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

MAX_NR_CONSOLES, fg_console, want_console and last_console are more of a
function of the VT layer than the TTY one.  Moving these to vt.h and vt_kern.h
allows all of the framebuffer and VT console drivers to remove their
dependency on tty.h.

[akpm@osdl.org: fix alpha build]
Signed-off-by: NJon Smirl <jonsmir@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAntonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

Revert commit ff4da2e2.

It broke APM suspend, probably because APM doesn't switch back to a VT
when suspending.

Tracked down by Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>

Rafael sayeth:
  "It only fixed the theoretical issue that a quick-handed user could
   switch to X after processes have been frozen and before the devices
   are suspended.

   With the current userland suspend tools it shouldn't be necessary."

Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

It is unsafe to suspend devices if the hardware is controlled by X.  Add an
extra check to prevent this from happening.
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!