Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Console handling (was: Re: Let's vote for PnP on 2.2) | Date | 14 Dec 1997 02:45:31 GMT |
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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.
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