Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964974AbWEaMMn (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 08:12:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964980AbWEaMMn (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 08:12:43 -0400 Received: from embla.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.22]:18104 "HELO embla.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964974AbWEaMMm (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 08:12:42 -0400 Message-ID: <447D878C.8090907@aitel.hist.no> Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 14:09:48 +0200 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Mares CC: Jon Smirl , Ondrej Zajicek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts References: <20060519224056.37429.qmail@web26611.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <200605272245.22320.dhazelton@enter.net> <9e4733910605272027o7b59ea5n5d402dabdd7167cb@mail.gmail.com> <200605280112.01639.dhazelton@enter.net> <21d7e9970605281613y3c44095bu116a84a66f5ba1d7@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910605281759j2e7bebe1h6e3f2bf1bdc3fc50@mail.gmail.com> <20060530223513.GA32267@localhost.localdomain> <9e4733910605301555o287cbd18i99c8813ca6592494@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 855 Lines: 24 Martin Mares wrote: > Hi! > > >> My thoughts are mixed on continuing to support text mode for anything >> other than initial boot/install. Linux is all about multiple languages >> and the character ROMs for text mode don't support all of these >> languages. >> > > On most servers, you don't need (and you don't want) anything like that. > In such cases, everything should be kept simple. Linux isn't all about servers - but still, a framebuffer is not "complicated" compared to vga textmode. It uses more memory, but that is graphichs memory the server can't put to better use anyway. Helge Hafting - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/