Re: Unicode support on VGA console.
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Fri, 22 Oct 1999 06:12:20 +0200
The Doctor What wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 05:39:59PM +0200, Jan Bobrowski wrote:
> > > > Nobody will use unicode on low-end i386 router because it's usable
> > > > only on workstation anyway. Workstations have 16MB at least so it takes
> > > > 1/1000 unswapable memory at most. Memory cost is not importand.
> > >
> > > If you are short enough on kernel memory that you don't want to use a
> > > framebuffer -- which doesn't have the hardware character limit -- then
> > > it does matter. If not, you're better off using a framebuffer rather
> > > than swapping the CRTC tables on the fly -- it's always going to work.
> >
> > 1. not every graphics card have fb driver.
> >
> > 2. ordinary font for all characters from left-to-right written western
> > scripts will take much more memory. My code generates 'aacute' form 'a'
> > and 'acute' glyphs.
>
> And don't forget, this requires less disk space too! Very important for
> floppy based install.....
>
This has absolutely nothing to do with frame buffer versus CRTC; I still
consider any attempt to syntesize CRTC tables dynamically to be an utter
lose.
-hpa
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