From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rob Landley Subject: Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 12:36:11 -0500 Message-ID: <200806041236.12349.rob@landley.net> References: <48447615.5050806@am.sony.com> <4845C7A3.1020607@zytor.com> <20080604025648.GA17524@linux-sh.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080604025648.GA17524@linux-sh.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Paul Mundt Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-embedded On Tuesday 03 June 2008 21:56:48 Paul Mundt wrote: > On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 03:37:23PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Rob Landley wrote: > > >>Actually, lots have frame buffers these days. > > > > > >Cell phones, for instance. > > > > Sure, but do you want to use them as consoles? > > Unless your name is Pavel, no one actually wants a console on their > phone. So no, just framebuffers, as is to be expected :-) Actually if you ever need to diagnose early boot stuff on _any_ platform, you do need a console. But it can be serial or netconsole, as long as that works... Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson.