Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757651Ab0LBN72 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:59:28 -0500 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.105]:38461 "EHLO mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757470Ab0LBN70 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:59:26 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,288,1288566000"; d="scan'208";a="81144956" Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 14:59:23 +0100 From: Samuel Thibault To: James Simmons Cc: Microcai , Vojtech Pavlik , linuxconsole@vger.kernel.org, linuxconsole-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kernel fbcon UNICODE font support Message-ID: <20101202135923.GA11944@const.bordeaux.inria.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Samuel Thibault , James Simmons , Microcai , Vojtech Pavlik , linuxconsole@vger.kernel.org, linuxconsole-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox References: <1290750825.2372.59.camel@cai.gentoo> <20101127125742.GD4865@const.famille.thibault.fr> <20101128081528.GA20705@suse.cz> <1290932981.710.2.camel@cai.gentoo> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 915 Lines: 18 James Simmons, le Thu 02 Dec 2010 13:50:28 +0000, a ?crit : > This is nice and neat for vgacon but it doesn't flow so nicely with > graphical consoles or text LCDs. What I like to see is the attribute > buffer be split from the vc_screenbuf. The bonus is in embbeded systems we > could arrange the code so we could have a light weight printk VT without > the extra junk of the VC. Do we really need a attribute buffer for printk? > I believe that would be the first step in the right direction. That's exactly what I suggested privately to Microcai. Increasing the number of supported glyphs should then becomes way simpler, and double-width not so far. Samuel -- 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/