Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753905AbXECHUe (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 03:20:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755009AbXECHUe (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 03:20:34 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:42838 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753905AbXECHUd (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 03:20:33 -0400 Message-ID: <46398D1F.1020306@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 00:19:59 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Albert Cahalan CC: "Antonino A. Daplas" , Geert Uytterhoeven , linux-kernel , aeb@cwi.nl Subject: Re: console font limits References: <787b0d920704302109r352e6653wc71a0638cbfbdcce@mail.gmail.com> <1178021516.4372.62.camel@daplas> <46375738.1010007@zytor.com> <787b0d920705010849u52a4d6c3o2f1f800521ad5b95@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <787b0d920705010849u52a4d6c3o2f1f800521ad5b95@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 547 Lines: 13 Albert Cahalan wrote: > Font size is not a sane place to draw the line. Features are. Font sizes are an eminently sane place to draw the line, because the crossover is largely determined by the point at which nailing down too much memory (kernel memory = unswappable memory) gets too expensive. -hpa - 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/