Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 11:20:23 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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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On Thu, 03 May 2007 00:19:59 -0700
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> 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.

Which is a value judgement made based upon the cost of memory, the
memory limit of the system (and the fixed kmalloc limits).

Obvious fix Albert would be to post patches which 

	-	Ignore the font size limits (up to sanity point) for 
		CAP_SYS_something
	-	Put the limit in sysfs where it belongs
	-	Use vmalloc not kmalloc if neccessary

Alan
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