Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Oct 1999 13:18:08 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Unicode support on VGA console. |
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Jan Bobrowski wrote: > > On 4 Oct 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > The limit is 512, not 256. Anyhow, it has been agreed that this > > really takes too much kernel memory; [...] > > Why? It takes 16KB (it can be slightly compressed), eg. NLS translation > tables waste 768 bytes each (probably more) and they are in the kernel. > Inode structure takes more than 256 bytes (because ext2 private fields > are so big without reason)... > > Nobody will use unicode on low-end i386 router because it's usable > only on workstation anyway. Workstations have 16MB at least so it takes > 1/1000 unswapable memory at most. Memory cost is not importand. >
If you are short enough on kernel memory that you don't want to use a framebuffer -- which doesn't have the hardware character limit -- then it does matter. If not, you're better off using a framebuffer rather than swapping the CRTC tables on the fly -- it's always going to work.
-hpa
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