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[PATCH] Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] support console resolutions better than 80

>>> Being limited to 80x25 is a pita. I'd be interested in seeing a
patch
>>> (just a rough one for initial comments if you can do that with
less
>>> effort).
>>
>> Attached. Jan
>
>This seems okay to me in principle. If it's cleaned up a bit then 
>there's no reason not to take it -- and getting out of 80x25 mode is 
>very desirable!

Here's the full, restructured patch. There are two remaining issues
with it
that I'm not sure how to deal with:
1) It'll probably break ia64 and ppc builds.
2) On all ATI cards I tested the font loading code on so far there is
a
(hardware) flaw that doesn't permit loading the font into other than
font
slot zero; the code, however, defaults to load the font into slot 2,
which
means that on ATI cards this currently only works with an additional
command line option "fontslot=0". The purpose of loading into slot 2
is
to preserve the (BIOS provided) font in slot 0 (perhaps slots 0 and
1),
as would Linux do if it didn't set BROKEN_GRAPHICS_PROGRAMS
(almost) unconditionally (in include/linux/vt_kern.h).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>

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