Re: [PATCH] Kernel fbcon UNICODE font support

From: James Simmons
Date: Thu Dec 02 2010 - 13:25:41 EST




On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> James Simmons, le Thu 02 Dec 2010 13:50:28 +0000, a écrit :
> > 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.

The challenge would be the scrolling code. I cc'ed the LCD group to voice
there needs as well.