From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
aeb@cwi.nl
Subject: Re: console font limits
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 00:19:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46398D1F.1020306@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <787b0d920705010849u52a4d6c3o2f1f800521ad5b95@mail.gmail.com>
Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Font size is not a sane place to draw the line. Features are.
Font sizes are an eminently sane place to draw the line, because the
crossover is largely determined by the point at which nailing down too
much memory (kernel memory = unswappable memory) gets too expensive.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-03 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-01 4:09 console font limits Albert Cahalan
2007-05-01 11:49 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-05-01 12:11 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-05-01 15:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01 15:49 ` Albert Cahalan
2007-05-02 18:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-03 6:17 ` Albert Cahalan
2007-05-03 7:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-03 14:14 ` Albert Cahalan
2007-05-03 14:26 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-03 15:56 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-05-03 18:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-03 20:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-03 20:16 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-04 0:17 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-05-04 0:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-04 3:58 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-05-04 4:59 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-05-04 15:34 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-06 23:35 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-05-03 7:19 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-03 7:45 ` Helge Hafting
2007-05-03 10:20 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-01 17:06 ` Ken Moffat
2007-05-03 17:11 ` Andries Brouwer
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