On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 03:24:49AM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> stefano wrote:
> > what i'm thinking ( and i was thinking when writting my
> > patches ) is hardcore the fonts in kernel like those
> > uniXXX.h fonts, some of them have a  start ( offset ?)
> > character , which will help if a multifont(???) file exists.
> 
> It should be quite easy to modify vga_raster.c to embed wsfonts 
> at compile time, but that will make the kernel bigger.

Come to think of it, I would like to be able to have my console be
something other than 80x25 on the first virtual console. I'm using
the stock wscons here on a text VGA display, FWIW.

If the first VT cannot be changed as a precaution against a user
borking the console then having the font and mode hardcoded in the
kernel would seem to be the answer.
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