linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver

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Date:	Fri, 11 May 2007 14:21:24 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>,
	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>,
	Anton Vorontsov <cbou@...l.ru>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-discuss@...dhelds.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver

> Even with fbdev... you are limited to 512 characters iirc. So.. who
> has authority to say which subset of utf-8 is ok?

This is a bug in fbdev and currently under discussion as there is no sane
reason to enforce the 512 symbol limit in the fbdev case (especially on a
large modern system)

> (Plus there is still lot of vga consoles out there -- all fedora users
> afaict?)

Fedora uses X.

Alan
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