Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Aug 2023 19:12:00 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] sparc: Use shared font data |
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Hi David,
On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 02:09:14AM +0100, linux@treblig.org wrote: > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@treblig.org> > > sparc has a 'btext' font used for the console which is almost identical > to the shared font_sun8x16, so use it rather than duplicating the data. > > They were actually identical until about a decade ago when > commit bcfbeecea11c ("drivers: console: font_: Change a glyph from > "broken bar" to "vertical line"") > > which changed the | in the shared font to be a solid > bar rather than a broken bar. That's the only difference. > > This was originally spotted by PMD which noticed that PPC does > the same thing with the same data, and they also share a bunch > of functions to manipulate the data. > > Tested very lightly with a boot without FS in qemu. > > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org> Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Sam
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