It would be nice to support more than 512 characters when using a graphical console. We should be able to support up to 2048 at least.
Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote: >On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:18 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote: >> The characters will morph anyway, it is just a matter off having them >randomly scream with the intensity bit. >> >> 512-character mode is definitely useful... we get much wider language >coverage with 512 than with 256, which is why most distros use a 512 >console font. > >Yeah really use a graphics console :-) > >But I've sent a v2 patch that should clear the attribute space going >both directions. > >Dave. -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse brevity and lack of formatting.
