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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:45:22 +0100
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 0/5] VT: Add ability to get font requirements
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Alexey Gladkov, le ven. 16 févr. 2024 14:26:38 +0100, a ecrit:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 08:21:38AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > On 15. 02. 24, 16:37, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> > > We now have KD_FONT_OP_SET_TALL, but in fact such large fonts cannot be
> > > loaded. No console driver supports tall fonts.
> > 
> > I thought fbcon can, no? If not, we should likely remove all the 
> > KD_FONT_OP_SET_TALL checks here and there.
> 
> I thought so too until kbd users started trying to use such fonts. A month
> after adding KD_FONT_OP_SET_TALL, support for large fonts was turned off
> in fbcon:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=2b09d5d364986f724f17001ccfe4126b9b43a0be
> 
> But I don't think we need to remove KD_FONT_OP_SET_TALL completely. Maybe
> support for large fonts can be fixed.

Some users *need* it to be fixed, because they need large fonts to be
able to read their screen.

Samuel