Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards

H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-14T05:11:46Z

Oleg Verych wrote:
> Thus, text mode on modern hardware isn't useable that much, only with
> Terminus font it is kind of normal (kudos to Dimitar Toshkov Jekov).
> But it's only option to unfortunately sucking X11, even with memory
> bandwidth, you are talking about.

That's another reason to use the framebuffer console on laptops.

-hpa