From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Gatliff Subject: Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:42:06 -0500 Message-ID: <4846D3EE.1070802@billgatliff.com> References: <48447615.5050806@am.sony.com> <4845C7A3.1020607@zytor.com> <20080604025648.GA17524@linux-sh.org> <200806041236.12349.rob@landley.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200806041236.12349.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Rob Landley Cc: Paul Mundt , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-embedded Rob Landley wrote: > 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... ... who says I _always_ want it to look and feel like a "cell phone"? Some days, I'd prefer that my cell phone look like something else. Anything else. Especially something that will actually work _for_ me instead of the other way around. But barring that, something throw-able. Like a chair. :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff bgat@billgatliff.com