Re: vt: Enlarge the framebuffer glyph size from 16 to 32 bits

[Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>]

Hi

Am 29.08.26 um 16:39 schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
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>> This has nothing to do with KDE or Gnome, if you have issues with those
>> projects, please take it up with them and contribute to them to resolve
>> those issues.  I know they can always use the help.
> My point is that the kernel's console is rock solid and dependable.

That is a bold statement.  I've spend the last years working on related 
code (fbcon) and it mostly feels dated and unmaintained. Our prime 
implementation (again fbcon) has been de-facto unmaintained for years. 
We recently had contributors who are pushing the ioctls semantics and 
found bugs in fbcon for a number of corner cases.


> Things like kmscon are subject to the vagaries of fashion.
>
>>> As is clear, I think the console's limitations should be eliminated.
>> And the rest of us feel the kernel console's code should be eliminated
>> entirely, when ever possible :)
> The rest of you don't appear to be console users.  It's easy to advocate
> for removal when you don't use it yourself.

FTR I'm not at all interested in eliminating the kernel's console. But 
there are must-have features and nice-to-have features. IMHO for the 
kernel console i18n really belongs in the later category.

Best regards
Thomas


>
>> thanks,
>> greg k-h

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