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Message-ID: <1ef10934-f81f-4a4b-b4a9-4d499e9721bc@email.android.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 06:18:58 -0600 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com> CC: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] vgacon/vt: clear buffer attributes when we load a 512 character font The characters will morph anyway, it is just a matter off having them randomly scream with the intensity bit. 512-character mode is definitely useful... we get much wider language coverage with 512 than with 256, which is why most distros use a 512 console font. Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com> wrote: >On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:20 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote: >> We should clear this bit presumably on switching either from or to >512-char mode, since the bit doesn't really make sense either way. > >Yeah the only problem going from 512-char is that chars above 256 will >morph into garbage chars below 256, like ctrl chars, I don't really >want to face into doing some sort of safe translation out of 512-char >mode, from reading around the net, 512 char mode doesn't seem all that >brilliantly useful. > >Dave. -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse brevity and lack of formatting. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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