linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vt: monochrome mode with 512 glyphs

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Message-ID: <ce7512a9-434a-9769-a2cf-af291fa9fc64@c64.rulez.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 07:43:25 +0200
From: Kajtár Zsolt <soci@....rulez.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: monochrome mode with 512 glyphs

> For some reason you didn't cc: all of the maintainers and the subsystem
> mailing list for this code :(

Sorry, will do next time. Checked the linux-serial archive and now I see
that it's also related to VT.

> Anyway, this is anything but obvious as to what is happening, can this
> somehow be documented in the change to make it more clear?

Thanks!

Meanwhile I've thought about the problem and this patch was not the
right approach. Lets just forget about it.

Instead the 512 glyph handling in fbcon needs to be done differently. As
far as I see there are already fbcon specific hacks in the vt code
related to this and it'd be better to remove them instead of adding a
few more.

-- 
						    -soci-

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