Use KDFONTOP ioctl on Linux console for font reprogramming #1809
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The
GIO_FONTX
andPIO_FONTX
ioctl()
s were removed earlier this year. Move to the crescent freshKDFONTOP
, which among other things has dynamic width support. Plug detection of the Linux console throughinterrogate_terminfo()
rather than relying onTERM
there. Closes #1726.