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Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 09:45:06 +0200
From: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>
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To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>,
       "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>,
       Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, aeb@cwi.nl
Subject: Re: console font limits
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H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.
>   
But then the sane limit is a number of pages, not "512 glyphs".

And there is no problem if the memory is allocated dynamically
when loading the font.  Americans may then load a 127-glyph
font without wasting memory.  And those who wish to lock down
5MB unswappable memory for a hi-res chinese console can do that too.
Doing so isn't really a problem on a desktop pc.

Helge Hafting

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