From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2D4ED12FB1D for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:40:45 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1708094446; cv=none; b=dRXbN5xBcuutGWvlBiZXCtdwa8UVuWR6NxpSJJPMqxKgEAgNoJXVokLzSiUDsEaR1Wcb9XQCkUmK+NdjY1widxKZjOWCNxqMBabOZsYwUHdo4Qh65fFMxk35uWsVYI7Fvb04JltmB0WxXMJAaWlxaCcMXVNNPrCRNVNTGiL0cgY= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1708094446; c=relaxed/simple; bh=KyiJUwVp3WSEgIu/ScrsxW/jzrNSeVWnnoNAptYeyQs=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=FPISCdPdA71rg7E0j1wNgCkuiccGeej4JEgf36ezUCHS4eFiOqwmdDwcL84AHbC7j5/ZfrnHT/z/lyljAtVyHGTFmfHhG57hs8oh+iF1r9LJ/ToIiAuyUXyMIDziZ2fjQDRUYabI7IpIlVQ2mAerxq9uD42JEEx85SLxBOS7hAE= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=IhdiNTts; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="IhdiNTts" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8A2FFC43390; Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:40:44 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1708094445; bh=KyiJUwVp3WSEgIu/ScrsxW/jzrNSeVWnnoNAptYeyQs=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=IhdiNTtsz3SKvL19GUeYPjoehtyOuqzU7hczruIP/3RBlL3Oepr99tz1cXNVXJA1N Ko49fBOBtABQ0vtXPYgj9P7VNIy58wmUXvYnAk8rGpMPQyqrGcG6Oec6HOgYbZHp5W PSXTaZvuzZZ5k8kGM7uNSTOtYP29EM29RbUh44o9OdE5h3QnFFAy2ze4EMETfv/q4u 2CpJsE5q1jle6jdkLSUiKEFspSkPVjZVHFTF01ZXGXGNzQQP7hpHQVMwL8zpYoqEC4 lpixbVYwvp3cUUUVxRJeVFlQ9BNLPyxDg6d4XtWJXb/o1Vkq3kPTttJsP8wdYML1Uq O/XDWyUBbdjCQ== Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:40:40 +0100 From: Alexey Gladkov To: Samuel Thibault , Jiri Slaby , LKML , Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 0/5] VT: Add ability to get font requirements Message-ID: References: <20240216134522.s6d22mljxyfd3fsx@begin> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20240216134522.s6d22mljxyfd3fsx@begin> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 02:45:22PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Alexey Gladkov, le ven. 16 févr. 2024 14:26:38 +0100, a ecrit: > > On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 08:21:38AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > > On 15. 02. 24, 16:37, Alexey Gladkov wrote: > > > > We now have KD_FONT_OP_SET_TALL, but in fact such large fonts cannot be > > > > loaded. No console driver supports tall fonts. > > > > > > I thought fbcon can, no? If not, we should likely remove all the > > > KD_FONT_OP_SET_TALL checks here and there. > > > > I thought so too until kbd users started trying to use such fonts. A month > > after adding KD_FONT_OP_SET_TALL, support for large fonts was turned off > > in fbcon: > > > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=2b09d5d364986f724f17001ccfe4126b9b43a0be > > > > But I don't think we need to remove KD_FONT_OP_SET_TALL completely. Maybe > > support for large fonts can be fixed. > > Some users *need* it to be fixed, because they need large fonts to be > able to read their screen. I totally understand that. That's why I don't think it's necessary to remove or block SET_TALL. And that's also why I added you to the thread. -- Rgrds, legion