The characters will morph anyway, it is just a matter off having them randomly scream with the intensity bit. 512-character mode is definitely useful... we get much wider language coverage with 512 than with 256, which is why most distros use a 512 console font. Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:20 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> We should clear this bit presumably on switching either from or to >512-char mode, since the bit doesn't really make sense either way. > >Yeah the only problem going from 512-char is that chars above 256 will >morph into garbage chars below 256, like ctrl chars, I don't really >want to face into doing some sort of safe translation out of 512-char >mode, from reading around the net, 512 char mode doesn't seem all that >brilliantly useful. > >Dave. -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse brevity and lack of formatting. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
