From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (gabe.freedesktop.org [131.252.210.177]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A7631C624D4 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2026 07:34:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1033D10F41F; Thu, 3 Sep 2026 07:34:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (mail.muc.de [193.149.48.3]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 664DB10E3DF for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2026 11:14:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 81104 invoked by uid 3782); 1 Sep 2026 13:14:45 +0200 Received: from muc.de (p4fe15c70.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.225.92.112]) (using STARTTLS) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:14:44 +0200 Received: (qmail 6890 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Sep 2026 11:14:43 -0000 Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2026 11:14:43 +0000 To: Helge Deller Cc: Thomas Zimmermann , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jiri Slaby , Simona Vetter , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: vt: Enlarge the framebuffer glyph size from 16 to 32 bits Message-ID: References: <145be2e3-a8c0-4f4f-a701-af2696cec461@suse.de> <2026082938-spray-shimmer-9389@gregkh> <7c199c7f-d89b-48ca-a777-85585d2eb624@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Submission-Agent: TMDA/1.3.x (Ph3nix) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:33:13 +0000 X-BeenThere: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Direct Rendering Infrastructure - Development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: "dri-devel" On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 19:21:30 +0200, Helge Deller wrote: > On 8/31/26 16:45, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 08:20:10 +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > >> Am 29.08.26 um 16:39 schrieb Alan Mackenzie: [ .... ] > > I've been using the console for around 28 years, now. I don't recall it > > crashing at all. My current font and keyboard files are in exactly the > > same form as they were 28 years ago. These formats are stable and > > dependable. > >> 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. [ .... ] > >> FTR I'm not at all interested in eliminating the kernel's console. > > Other people, in particular Greg KH, have said this is the current aim. > > I'm worried for myself. It is far from clear that there is a suitable > > replacement for the kernel's console, and its elimination could easily > > happen without that replacement. I suppose I could always (laboriously) > > maintain the console for myself personally. Or there's always the BSDs. > > I just don't know what I'd do. > Alan, I really appreciate your efforts to enhance the kernel console code! > And I'm not interested to eliminate the kernel console either. > >> But there are must-have features and nice-to-have features. IMHO for > >> the kernel console i18n really belongs in the later category. > > It's 2026, four decades after VGA was the latest thing, and Unicode > > support is merely a nice-to-have? > No. IMHO Unicode support would be great. Thank you, indeed! That's cheering to hear. > Thanks! > Helge -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).