Andries> On 14 Dec 1997, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Linux has never had different number of lines on different VTs.
Andries> Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be answered:
>> Are you sure? There used to be a comment about this in
>> drivers/char/console.c. It said the feature was removed because
>> `it's messy to have all consoles of potentially different sizes'.
Andries> hpa is correct, in the sense that no official Linux
Andries> distribution ever had consoles of potentially different
Andries> sizes.
Just to be a bit pedantic, the _official_ Linux/m68k sources have
contained code for this for several years. However, it of course
depends on how you define `official'.
Andries> So, in the submitted version of this patch no scroll-back was
Andries> saved, and the source was simplified by letting all text-mode
Andries> consoles have the same size.
But now we are some who would like to see that feature ;-)
Andries> Concerning the sizes of VTs, we might reconsider if on other
Andries> architectures the change of video modes is easy, so that it
Andries> could be done by the kernel (without detailed per-video-card
Andries> info).
Even worse, on several architetures it is necessary for the kernel to
set the video mode.
Jes