From: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>,
"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 09:45:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46399302.3050207@aitel.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46398D1F.1020306@zytor.com>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.
>
But then the sane limit is a number of pages, not "512 glyphs".
And there is no problem if the memory is allocated dynamically
when loading the font. Americans may then load a 127-glyph
font without wasting memory. And those who wish to lock down
5MB unswappable memory for a hi-res chinese console can do that too.
Doing so isn't really a problem on a desktop pc.
Helge Hafting
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-03 7:52 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
2007-05-03 7:45 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
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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