lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2023]   [Aug]   [7]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] sparc: Use shared font data
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

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2023-08-07 19:14    [W:0.319 / U:0.348 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site