linux-kernel - Re: console font limits

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Message-ID: <463A42DF.5030409@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 03 May 2007 13:15:27 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
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

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."

	-hpa
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