linux-kernel - Re: console font limits

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Date:	Tue, 01 May 2007 08:05:28 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com>
CC:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Albert Cahalan <acahalan@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, aeb@....nl
Subject: Re: console font limits

Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> 
> And this will entail a lot of work to change (Is it worth it to rework
> the code and remove the limitation?). The linux-console project
> (http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net/) might have , but I don't know its
> current status.
> 

Well, I think the consensus is that anything beyond that should be done
in userspace; the main such console daemon was Kon2 last I checked.

	-hpa
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