Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > You lose the possibility to use bright colors using 512 character
> > fonts because there only are 16 bits to describe each character
> > position on the screen, and when you need an extra bit to select the
> > character, you unfortunately have one bit fewer to specify the color.
>
> With framebuffer console 512 character fonts do have bright colors.
In a way I think it's a shame that someone didn't put their foot down
years ago and say: this much, and no more, shall we implement in the
kernel's console. The kernel only really needs a console for errors at
boot time. The kernel doesn't use gettext; a 128-character us-ascii
font is sufficient, and on many architectures this is provided by the
BIOS/PROM/...
Then we would have had a standard console implemented outside the
kernel, which would be much easier to change and improve.
As it is, the kernel's console driver does more than most people need,
and most people just use X, anyway, so people are not asking for a
user-space console driver. However, I did implement one, based on
existing code, for use with Debian's boot-floppies.
Edmund
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