Hi Manuel,
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Manuel Schölling
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Add a scrollback buffers for each VGA console. The benefit is that
> the scrollback history is not flushed when switching between consoles
> but is persistent.
> The buffers are allocated on demand when a new console is opened.
Thanks for your patch!
I see two issues with this feature:
1. Before, the single (default 64 KiB) buffer was allocated at startup.
Now you will allocate a buffer each time a new console is opened.
Depending on memory fragmentation, this may fail.
2. People with RAM-constrained systems may not like this.
Can it be a config option?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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