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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Console debugging wishlist was: Re: oops pauser.
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:31:45 +0100
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On Wednesday 11 January 2006 13:24, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:

> In the VGA console, all buffers, including scrollback is in video RAM, but
> the size is fixed and is very small.

I wonder if that can be fixed.

> With the framebuffer console, you can increase the size of the scrollback
> buffer with the boot option:
> 
> fbcon=scrollback:<n> (default is 32K)

On x86-64 vesafb is unusable slow because it does CPU scrolling cause
it can't use the vesa BIOS - and the others don't work everywhere. So I don't
think fbcon is an usable replacement.

-Andi
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