Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752471AbXFNFLq (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:11:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750851AbXFNFLg (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:11:36 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:50730 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750747AbXFNFLf (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:11:35 -0400 Message-ID: <4670CDF0.808@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:11:12 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oleg Verych CC: Linus Torvalds , Rene Herman , linux-kernel , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andi Kleen , Jeff Garzik , Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards References: <463698D5.20102@zytor.com> <4637A3F6.70508@gmail.com> <4637B6B5.5060502@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: 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: 585 Lines: 14 Oleg Verych wrote: > Thus, text mode on modern hardware isn't useable that much, only with > Terminus font it is kind of normal (kudos to Dimitar Toshkov Jekov). > But it's only option to unfortunately sucking X11, even with memory > bandwidth, you are talking about. That's another reason to use the framebuffer console on laptops. -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/