linux-kernel - Re: console font limits

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Date:	Thu, 03 May 2007 09:45:06 +0200
From:	Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@...el.hist.no>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC:	Albert Cahalan <acahalan@...il.com>,
	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, aeb@....nl
Subject: Re: console font limits

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Albert Cahalan wrote:
>   
>> Font size is not a sane place to draw the line. Features are.
>>     
>
> Font sizes are an eminently sane place to draw the line, because the
> crossover is largely determined by the point at which nailing down too
> much memory (kernel memory = unswappable memory) gets too expensive.
>   
But then the sane limit is a number of pages, not "512 glyphs".

And there is no problem if the memory is allocated dynamically
when loading the font.  Americans may then load a 127-glyph
font without wasting memory.  And those who wish to lock down
5MB unswappable memory for a hi-res chinese console can do that too.
Doing so isn't really a problem on a desktop pc.

Helge Hafting

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