From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263998AbTDNWMT (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 18:12:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263978AbTDNWKf (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 18:10:35 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:17933 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263979AbTDNWKA (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 18:10:00 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [vgacon] Font height discrepancy, Linux 2.5.x Date: 14 Apr 2003 15:21:38 -0700 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2003 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: By author: Byron Stanoszek In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > I would only like to set vc_font.height on all VTs if the underlying module is > a VGA Console and not a framebuffer. > > What is the easiest way to do this? Perhaps the module should set a special > flag in the vt structure to determine if a font change affects all VTs (as in > the VGA Console) or only on the current VT (Framebuffer)? > I think we need a font data structure that is pointed to by the vc data structure. It can be shared for those consoles where it's appropriate and separate for those that aren't. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." Architectures needed: ia64 m68k mips64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sh v850 x86-64