linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] VT: Restore VT fonts on switch

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Date:	Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:54:53 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
cc:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VT: Restore VT fonts on switch


On Monday 2008-07-21 22:43, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

>On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:39:44 -0400
>Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> wrote:
>
>> Not all X drivers save and restore fonts on text VTs. Add code to the
>> kernel to explicitly save and restore them on VT switches.
>
>
>do you have a list of which ones don't ?

This piece of code may be needed anyway for swsusp, which does not
restore fonts yet.
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