From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964979AbWEaNf0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 09:35:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965002AbWEaNf0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 09:35:26 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:18637 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964979AbWEaNfZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 09:35:25 -0400 Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 15:34:36 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Martin Mares Cc: Jon Smirl , Ondrej Zajicek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts Message-ID: <20060531133436.GA1875@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20060519224056.37429.qmail@web26611.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <200605272245.22320.dhazelton@enter.net> <9e4733910605272027o7b59ea5n5d402dabdd7167cb@mail.gmail.com> <200605280112.01639.dhazelton@enter.net> <21d7e9970605281613y3c44095bu116a84a66f5ba1d7@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910605281759j2e7bebe1h6e3f2bf1bdc3fc50@mail.gmail.com> <20060530223513.GA32267@localhost.localdomain> <9e4733910605301555o287cbd18i99c8813ca6592494@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On St 31-05-06 08:48:15, Martin Mares wrote: > Hi! > > > My thoughts are mixed on continuing to support text mode for anything > > other than initial boot/install. Linux is all about multiple languages > > and the character ROMs for text mode don't support all of these > > languages. > > On most servers, you don't need (and you don't want) anything like that. > In such cases, everything should be kept simple. Problem is: it messes up design for everyone else. (And no, Santiago, most people are not using vgacon. Most people use vesafb these days, because that's what allows whole screen to be used, not just 80x25). fbcon is simple enough. Okay, vgacon may be useful for recovery, but supporting accelerated 3D over vgacon is quite crazy. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html