Re: 2.3.51: FBCON: driver-based default font selection broken?

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Sun Mar 12 2000 - 09:57:38 EST


James Simmons writes:
> No it's not a step backwards. It's a step forward. Its just bloat to have
> a bunch of font sets built into the kernel when you can use a userland app
> to change the fonts. IMO you should only be able to compile in one font
> set and use a userland app to change the font sets otherwise. Userland
> apps are your friend :)

If that is the case, we might as well free up a few more bytes and remove
the option for the user to pass the font in the kernel argument line.
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