From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sonata.ens-lyon.org (domu-toccata.ens-lyon.fr [140.77.166.138]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E2F6C12B158 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2024 13:45:30 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=140.77.166.138 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1708091133; cv=none; b=mbe0Bguq/761/M72HMzY+gdCMJwYP3NQLOqUqXQlvPztWemEJxVYgdhutMnSxQgpP8BTRJgBk0NUiyI/lmaBaPP7UVWO6FGHOSSNs4B3Ponv5lc4Ss91XGW9VbFyVeOyHWB12M36WO7zFTIJqh+xzyzN7uaaqa/roCf6ramE83o= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1708091133; c=relaxed/simple; bh=HnKyETVuwfznkWP5RdU6qtJiw6e9+UYW2nYbDUD/+9U=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=LBXnCNnxlm2e5DDSeBY2jXTPiT2puAiHNNyKL3Axp9rc0OWi1Ouy38BRpF59k1EjlkYxllkEh1SzVcJv/m0rl4xL3dI7DWj52nUNjelv8J7myDmY9zr9VMpSK8yD0F2WnJ7OjfgqK1v6WaxqwRiMszSnMZKbUQG8dao93cV3PA8= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=ens-lyon.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=bounce.ens-lyon.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=140.77.166.138 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=ens-lyon.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=bounce.ens-lyon.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sonata.ens-lyon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF25EA02CD; Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:45:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from sonata.ens-lyon.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (sonata.ens-lyon.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 9VEhNYFXxryf; Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:45:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from begin (nat-inria-interne-52-gw-01-bso.bordeaux.inria.fr [194.199.1.52]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by sonata.ens-lyon.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 83FFFA02B3; Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:45:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from samy by begin with local (Exim 4.97) (envelope-from ) id 1rayWo-00000002MJH-0bJO; Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:45:22 +0100 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:45:22 +0100 From: Samuel Thibault To: Alexey Gladkov Cc: Jiri Slaby , LKML , Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 0/5] VT: Add ability to get font requirements Message-ID: <20240216134522.s6d22mljxyfd3fsx@begin> Mail-Followup-To: Samuel Thibault , Alexey Gladkov , Jiri Slaby , LKML , Greg Kroah-Hartman References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Organization: I am not organized User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3) Alexey Gladkov, le ven. 16 févr. 2024 14:26:38 +0100, a ecrit: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 08:21:38AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > On 15. 02. 24, 16:37, Alexey Gladkov wrote: > > > We now have KD_FONT_OP_SET_TALL, but in fact such large fonts cannot be > > > loaded. No console driver supports tall fonts. > > > > I thought fbcon can, no? If not, we should likely remove all the > > KD_FONT_OP_SET_TALL checks here and there. > > I thought so too until kbd users started trying to use such fonts. A month > after adding KD_FONT_OP_SET_TALL, support for large fonts was turned off > in fbcon: > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=2b09d5d364986f724f17001ccfe4126b9b43a0be > > But I don't think we need to remove KD_FONT_OP_SET_TALL completely. Maybe > support for large fonts can be fixed. Some users *need* it to be fixed, because they need large fonts to be able to read their screen. Samuel