linux-kernel - Re: console font limits

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Date:	Thu, 3 May 2007 22:16:51 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
cc:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Albert Cahalan <acahalan@...il.com>,
	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, aeb@....nl
Subject: Re: console font limits


On May 3 2007 13:15, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> 
>>> Put people didn't like that, and disabled text output when the console
>>> is in KD_GRAPHICS mode...
>> 
>> at the cost of not getting the kernel oops, heh.
>
>I thought the reason we didn't display text in KD_GRAPHICS mode was that
>KD_GRAPHICS might mean "in a completely different mode that only
>userspace knows about."

Hrm. Maybe we need a distinction into KD_KGRAPHICS and KD_UGRAPHICS then.


Jan
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