From: Microcai <microcai@fedoraproject.org>
To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linuxconsole-dev@lists.sourceforge.net,
linuxconsole@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kernel fbcon UNICODE font support
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:29:41 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1290932981.710.2.camel@cai.gentoo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101128081528.GA20705@suse.cz>
在 2010-11-28日的 09:15 +0100，Vojtech Pavlik写道：
>
> Well, on VGA you could use the 512 glyphs available (9 bit character, 7
> bit attribute) and dynamically change the font in the video memory to
> always contain the characters that you need on the screen. Chances are
> that you won't need all 512 at any single time. The screen isn't that
> large in classic VGA mode.
>
> But since VGA is mostly dead these days anyway, it'd be a neat hack, but
> probably not worth the effort.
Can't do that. That's too tricky, and some times we *DO* need more than
512 different glyphs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-28 10:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-26 5:53 [PATCH] Kernel fbcon UNICODE font support Microcai
2010-11-27 12:57 ` Samuel Thibault
2010-11-27 16:18 ` microcai
2010-11-27 16:39 ` Samuel Thibault
2010-11-28 6:50 ` microcai
2010-11-28 8:15 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2010-11-28 8:29 ` Microcai [this message]
2010-12-02 13:50 ` James Simmons
2010-12-02 13:59 ` Samuel Thibault
2010-12-02 18:25 ` James Simmons
2010-11-28 8:47 ` Samuel Thibault
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