linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vgacon/vt: clear buffer attributes when we load a 512 character font

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Date:	Thu, 24 Jan 2013 06:18:58 -0600
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
CC:	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vgacon/vt: clear buffer attributes when we load a 512 character font

The characters will morph anyway, it is just a matter off having them randomly scream with the intensity bit.

512-character mode is definitely useful... we get much wider language coverage with 512 than with 256, which is why most distros use a 512 console font.

Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com> wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:20 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
>> We should clear this bit presumably on switching either from or to
>512-char mode, since the bit doesn't really make sense either way.
>
>Yeah the only problem going from 512-char is that chars above 256 will
>morph into garbage chars below 256, like ctrl chars, I don't really
>want to face into doing some sort of safe translation out of 512-char
>mode, from reading around the net, 512 char mode doesn't seem all that
>brilliantly useful.
>
>Dave.

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