Friday, March 20, 2026

efifb dumbfb question

Hello,

I had a programming question. Is it possible to have a WSDISPLAYIO_MODE_DUMBFB
rendered on only one tty instead of having the mmap memory affecting every
tty despite the socket only targetting one.

For context, I'm writting a program that does rendering with efifb and when
trying to switch tty (with the shortcuts) the framebuffer that has been
mmaped carries over.

```Small snippet
fbuf = mmap(0, fbinfo.width * fbinfo.height * (fbinfo.depth / 8), PROT_WRITE |
PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, sockfd, (off_t)0);

memset(fbuf, 255, fbinfo.width * fbinfo.height * (fbinfo.depth / 8));
```

Xavier

Re: NEW: sysutils/starship

On 2026-03-20 16:40, Lydia Sobot wrote:
>>From a bit of testing, starship is quite neat - not necessarily for ksh purists,
>>but I'm quite enjoying it in combination with fish and work with git repos (no
>>support for jj yet, at least not out of the box).
>>
>>With Lydia's tarball and the attached Makefile, ok volker@ if anyone else is
>>interested.
>Ping?

Supportive Pong from me here. Can we get a second ok?