SchOS/include/dev/vt.h
Nexoniarz b1323e193a input, fb, vt, sysfs: the kernel calls Xorg makes
Xorg on a framebuffer -- the fbdev video driver, the evdev input driver,
libpciaccess -- asks the kernel a fixed set of questions before it draws
anything, and gives up on the first wrong answer. These are those
answers.

evdev: EVIOCGVERSION, GID, GNAME, GPHYS, GUNIQ, GPROP, GBIT, GKEY, GABS,
GREP and the accepted setters. Xorg and libinput decide what a device
*is* from the capability bitmaps; /dev/input/eventN answered only
EVIOCGRAB, which reads as no device at all. Each device's bitmaps are
its defaults plus whatever it has reported, so a USB tablet makes the
pointer absolute.

fbdev: FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO succeeds for the mode already set, as on
Linux -- the fbdev driver sets it every time it starts -- and still
refuses any other. FBIOPAN_DISPLAY to the origin; FBIOBLANK.

The console: KDSETMODE(KD_GRAPHICS) stops it drawing on a terminal,
KDSKBMODE(K_OFF) stops keys reaching its tty, and VT_PROCESS now does
the switch handshake: leaving the terminal sends relsig and waits for
VT_RELDISP, arriving sends acqsig. A terminal whose owner has died goes
back to the kernel whole, so a crashed X cannot leave the console dead.

/sys: boot_vga, a writable enable, and graphics/fb0 under the display
device, which is how the fbdev driver pairs a card with /dev/fb0.

ports/linux-headers: <linux/*.h> into musl's prefix, from sabotage-
linux's kernel-headers 4.19.88-2. Its checksum is recorded from the
first download; upstream publishes none.

cmd/xready makes each call and checks the answer, including the switch
handshake on tty2 and an owner that dies holding it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01S1giNvrHTrPMPw7V6x1kQ4
2026-10-24 12:06:04 +02:00

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
//
// Virtual terminals.
//
// Until this existed there was one console. `/dev/tty` was an alias for
// `/dev/console` with the same major and minor, `tty_fg_pgrp` was a single
// global int, and TIOCSCTTY was `return 0`. One screen, one foreground
// process group, one line discipline, no way to have a second shell.
//
// The thing that makes switching possible is a backing store. The console
// drew straight into the framebuffer and scrolled by moving pixels, which
// works exactly as long as nothing else ever wants the screen: there was
// nowhere to put terminal 2 while terminal 1 was visible, and nothing to
// repaint terminal 1 from when it came back. So each VT owns a grid of cells
// and the framebuffer shows whichever grid is active.
//
// A VT that is not active is not a special case. Writes to it land in its
// grid, its cursor moves, it scrolls; the only thing it does not do is draw.
// That is the whole switching mechanism: vt_switch repaints, and everything
// else is written as though it were always on screen.
#ifndef VT_H
#define VT_H
#include "core/types.h"
#include "core/param.h"
#include "uapi/posix.h"
// Six, and Linux's numbering: /dev/tty1 through /dev/tty6, reached with
// Alt+1..Alt+6. A seventh is deliberately not bound -- that is where a
// display server goes, and Schcom will want it.
#define NVT 6
// A cell.
//
// `ch` is the glyph the font draws, not a codepoint: the console maps UTF-8
// to CP437 before it gets here, because that is what include/gfx/font.h contains.
// Storing the codepoint would mean re-running that mapping on every repaint
// and getting a different answer for anything the font cannot draw.
//
// The colours are palette indices rather than RGB. Sixteen ANSI colours plus
// the two theme defaults fit in a byte each and make a cell four bytes; the
// same cell holding two 32-bit colours would be twelve, and the grids are
// static.
struct vtcell {
// A Unicode codepoint, not a byte.
//
// This was a uint8, which is to say the grid could hold 256 distinct glyphs
// and every terminal was a CP437 terminal. A codepoint outside that was not
// stored wrongly, it was *converted* -- `glyph_for()` mapped what it could
// and turned the rest into `?`. Ą, Ę, Ś, Ω, Œ, Ə, ∞ and every other
// character anybody actually types were question marks before they reached
// the font, so no font could have fixed it.
//
// Four bytes a cell instead of one. A 1920x1080 screen at 9x18 is 12,720
// cells, so the grid costs 100 KB instead of 50 KB per terminal.
uint32 ch;
uint8 fg;
uint8 bg;
uint8 attr; // reserved: bold/underline/reverse, which do not change
uint8 pad; // the glyph and so can be added without touching a grid
};
#define VT_FG_DEFAULT 16 // SCH_FG from include/gfx/theme.h
#define VT_BG_DEFAULT 17 // SCH_BG
#define VT_NCOLOUR 18
// Cell attributes that do not change which glyph is drawn, only how.
#define VT_ATTR_REVERSE 0x01
// The largest console a grid can hold, which is 1920x1200 with the 8x16 font.
// A framebuffer wider or taller than this still works -- vt_init clamps the
// grid and the rest of the screen stays background -- but it is worth raising
// rather than living with, because the clamp is invisible until someone
// notices the bottom of their screen never has text on it.
#define VT_MAXCOLS 240
#define VT_MAXROWS 75
#define VT_INPUT_BUF 256
#define VT_MAXPARM 8
// Escape parser states. E_OSC and E_OSC_ESC exist for hyperlinks: a terminal
// that does not follow OSC 8 must still consume it, or the URL is printed as
// text. See the comment in kernel/core/console.c that this came from.
enum { VE_NORMAL, VE_ESC, VE_CSI, VE_OSC, VE_OSC_ESC };
struct vt {
int index; // 0-based; /dev/tty<index+1>
int cols, rows;
struct vtcell *cells; // cols*rows, row-major, into vt_storage
int cx, cy; // cursor, in cells
// Deferred wrap, the rule every real terminal follows and none of them
// document well: a glyph printed in the last column does NOT move the
// cursor to the next line. It sets this instead, and the wrap happens when
// the *next* glyph arrives. Anything that moves the cursor deliberately --
// CR, LF, backspace, an escape sequence -- clears it.
int wrap_pending;
int saved_cx, saved_cy; // DECSC/DECRC
uint8 fg, bg; // current SGR colours
int bold;
int attr; // VT_ATTR_* applied to new cells
// Escape parser.
int esc_state;
int esc_parm[VT_MAXPARM];
int esc_nparm;
int esc_private;
// UTF-8 decoder.
uint32 u8_cp;
int u8_need;
// Line discipline. One per terminal, because ICANON and ECHO are properties
// of a terminal and not of the machine.
struct termios tio;
struct {
char buf[VT_INPUT_BUF];
uint r, w, e;
uint abort_read;
uint eof;
} in;
// Job control. This was one global for the whole system; a terminal each
// is the entire point of having more than one.
int fg_pgrp;
int sid; // session that owns this terminal, 0 = none
int opened; // times it has been opened, for /dev/tty
// VT_AUTO or VT_PROCESS. In VT_PROCESS a program has claimed switching and
// the kernel stops acting on the chord -- see vt_kernel_switches().
int mode;
int owner; // pid that set VT_PROCESS
int relsig, acqsig; // what to send it; see vt_switch()
int leaving_to; // a switch waiting on VT_RELDISP, or -1
int kdmode; // KD_TEXT, or KD_GRAPHICS: not drawn
int kbmode; // K_UNICODE..., or K_OFF: no keys
};
// The active terminal, and the one the framebuffer is showing.
extern int vt_active;
void vt_init(void);
void vt_resize(void); // a scanout arrived; re-measure
struct vt *vt_get(int i); // 0-based, clamped, never null
struct vt *vt_current(void);
int vt_switch(int i); // 0-based; repaints. -1 if out of range
int vt_cycle(int dir); // -1 previous, +1 next, in-use only
// Output, per terminal. Drawing happens only if `v` is the active one.
void vt_feed(struct vt *v, int c); // one output byte, through the parser
void vt_putc(struct vt *v, int glyph); // one glyph, already mapped
void vt_cursor_set(struct vt *v, int col, int row);
void vt_cursor_get(struct vt *v, int *col, int *row);
void vt_erase_display(struct vt *v, int mode);
void vt_erase_line(struct vt *v, int mode);
void vt_clear(struct vt *v);
void vt_scroll(struct vt *v);
void vt_repaint(struct vt *v); // grid -> framebuffer, if active
uint32 vt_rgb(uint8 idx); // palette index -> RGB
int vt_index(struct vt *v); // 0-based number of a terminal
int vt_kernel_switches(void); // 0 if a program owns switching
int vt_reldisp(struct vt *v, int arg); // VT_RELDISP
void vt_set_process(struct vt *v, int mode, int relsig, int acqsig);
void vt_set_kdmode(struct vt *v, int mode);
int vt_takes_keys(struct vt *v); // 0 in K_OFF or a raw mode
#endif // VT_H