linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Automatically choose a bigger font for high resolution screens

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Date:   Thu, 20 Jun 2019 09:43:21 +0200
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Automatically choose a bigger font for high resolution screens

On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 08:28:21 +0200,
Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 10:34:22PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > this is an RFC patch for automatically selecting a bigger font for
> > high resolution monitors if available.  Although we recently got a
> > 16x32 sized font support in the kernel, using it still requires some
> > extra kernel option.  This patch reduces this and the kernel will pick
> > up a bigger font.
> > 
> > The logic is simply checking the text screen size.  If it's over a
> > threshold, the penalty is given to the function that chooses the
> > default font.
> > 
> > The threshold was chosen so that the normal display up to Full HD
> > won't be affected.
> > 
> > There are two preliminary patches and they are merely cleanups.  They
> > can be applied no matter whether to take the last patch or not.
> 
> I applied the first two patches, as they seem sane.

Thanks!

> I like the idea of the last one, and have no objections to it.  I can
> apply it too if you want and we can see what happens :)

OK, then let's go ahead.  We can see what people react if they can
read a kernel crash message without glasses :)


Takashi