This idea of a 256- or 512-element font cache for the VGA text mode has
been proposed repeatedly over the past 6 years, but nobody ever took it
upon himself to actually implement it. Most likely because most people
use xterm and not the VGA text mode console and perhaps also because it
is likely to involve somewhat non-trivial kernel/user mode interactions,
especially if you want to keep the large font data structures out of the
kernel.
What I am trying to say is: If you want to see this in the Linux console
driver in the foreseeable future, you will most likely have to implement
it yourself.
Markus
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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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