From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031307AbXECOOc (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 10:14:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031321AbXECOOc (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 10:14:32 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.235]:62642 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031307AbXECOOb (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 10:14:31 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=oT0QlqXgj8tDBOrHqTDxT8R7dykG2cXyAWJn5vNcvYGC6AMR7b8kbulLkU1kOTdqi2zRmQ4o8r3HPmwqVvcp3glNBe0B77T3zhREfB5J/izyi8kqvJxP7ziKN+CistelUoDT+O0w4++FCwrKOILFn5xtTFFI7VYoS6P2v6ZCwdQ= Message-ID: <787b0d920705030714k3b290d2csa38a5df63c692d6f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 10:14:30 -0400 From: "Albert Cahalan" To: "Jan Engelhardt" Subject: Re: console font limits Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , "Antonino A. Daplas" , "Geert Uytterhoeven" , linux-kernel , aeb@cwi.nl In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <787b0d920704302109r352e6653wc71a0638cbfbdcce@mail.gmail.com> <1178021516.4372.62.camel@daplas> <46375738.1010007@zytor.com> <787b0d920705010849u52a4d6c3o2f1f800521ad5b95@mail.gmail.com> <787b0d920705022317j485cbe26wc83f071834c53584@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 5/3/07, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On May 3 2007 02:17, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > Those sizes are unreadable on the 200 dpi OLPC XO screen, > > Hm that should have read, for you: > I don't object implementing support for larger sizes. > (But I wonder how that should work without FB/CVIDIX/SVGA/VESA extensions.) > > Note that I was assuming that no FB is used: I'm assuming that the FB is used. Neither of my two computers can do VGA text mode. Even for computers which can do VGA text mode, if you want large fonts (either by number of characters or by character width) you need to use FB. That's just a requirement; anything else would be insane. > For everything beyond Latin, fbiterm should work a lot better. Then, as with X, you have problems with kernel messages. Reliably sending printk through a userspace console is not even possible. (consider a panic, OOM, or runaway RT task)