linux-kernel - Re: console font limits

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Date:	Thu, 03 May 2007 00:19:59 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Albert Cahalan <acahalan@...il.com>
CC:	"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

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.

	-hpa
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