Re: [PATCH] VT: Restore VT fonts on switch

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 21:40 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:39:44 -0400
> Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Not all X drivers save and restore fonts on text VTs. Add code to the
> > kernel to explicitly save and restore them on VT switches.
> 
> Please explain why this cannot be done by HAL.

To give you a chance to see the console messages during resume
in case something goes wrong before HAL kicks in ? :-)

Ben.


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