On Wed, 22 September 2010 James Simmons [off-list ref] wrote:

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This year someone said he/she would look at making it possible to have
multiple concurrently active consoles on distinct framebuffers.
Hopefully something is happening on that front (that would certainly
also include some fbcon cleanup)

That would be me.

Thanks for showing up (I didn't find the matching thread, probably
subject and my search terms were no good friends :)

No problem.
 

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I have a tree at

http://git.infradead.org/users/jsimmons/linuxconsole-2.6.git

but currently fbcon is broken so I'm tracing down the problem.

Thanks for the reference to your tree!

What's you opinion regarding my changes to fbcon in my RFC patch?
Are they ok or would you prefer having fbcon changed to stop peeking
at registered_fb list and just operate directly on fb_info everywhere
it needs it? (that is let con2fb_map[] point to fb_info instead of
indexes into registered_fb? (I have a preference for the second one
and will try it out)

I'm aiming to kill off registered_fb. I agree that fb_info should be used 
directly and we can avoid the ref-count. As for con2fb_map that is a 
little more complex.