linux-kernel - Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards

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Message-ID: <4670CDF0.808@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:11:12 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards

Oleg Verych wrote:
> Thus, text mode on modern hardware isn't useable that much, only with
> Terminus font it is kind of normal (kudos to Dimitar Toshkov Jekov).
> But it's only option to unfortunately sucking X11, even with memory
> bandwidth, you are talking about.

That's another reason to use the framebuffer console on laptops.

	-hpa
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