Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Mar 2000 16:03:48 -0500 (EST) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.51: FBCON: driver-based default font selection broken? |
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On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Russell King wrote:
> 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.
It would of heading in that direction but 2.4.X is coming out.
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