Re: [PATCH] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Manuel,

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Manuel SchÃlling
<manuel.schoelling@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Add a scrollback buffers for each VGA console. The benefit is that
> the scrollback history is not flushed when switching between consoles
> but is persistent.
> The buffers are allocated on demand when a new console is opened.

Thanks for your patch!

I see two issues with this feature:
  1. Before, the single (default 64 KiB) buffer was allocated at startup.
     Now you will allocate a buffer each time a new console is opened.
     Depending on memory fragmentation, this may fail.
  2. People with RAM-constrained systems may not like this.
     Can it be a config option?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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