[systemd-devel] [PATCH 2/2] vconsole: set font on tty16..tty63 as well

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 24.02.15 19:53, Jan Engelhardt (jengelh at inai.de) wrote:

> On Tuesday 2015-02-24 19:47, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 24.02.15 17:49, Jan Engelhardt (jengelh at inai.de) wrote:
> >
> >> The setup program would not set the font on tty16 upwards.
> >> There is a maximum of 63 VCs possible in Linux. (That number is
> >> hardcoded.)
> >
> >We deliberately do not support such high VTs in systemds.
> 
> And what's the rationale?

Initially it was that we had the "systemd" udev tag on all VCs, which
made them appear as .device units in systemd, and I really didn't want
63 of them. Then, some of the VC ioctls have a 16bit bitmap, which
makes the higher VCs not as accesible. Mostly it's now though that the
concept of having that many VCs is kinda crazy...

What's your usecase for this?

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat