Virtcon

Virtcon is the system terminal. It is a critical part of bringup and provides graphical output with minimal hardware requrements.

Legacy Virtcon

The legacy implementation is written in C++ and graphical output is limited to bitmap text and basic primitives such as pixel aligned rectangles. Legacy Virtcon can be found in virtcon/.

New Virtcon

The new version of Virtcon is written in Rust and powered by Carnelian. Carnelian enable advanced vector graphics and truetype text rendering while maintaining minimal hardware requirements.

Goals

• Minimal resource usage.
• Maximize code reuse with Terminal app.
• Boot animation for startup and shutdown.
• Runtime product configuration.
• Flicker free single framebuffer mode.

Roadmap

1. Boot animation chime support.
2. Silent boot system for runtime suppression of chime.

Testing

Configure

fx set core.x64 --with //src/bringup/bin/virtcon2:tests

Then test

fx test virtual_console_tests