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SubjectRe: 2.3.51: FBCON: driver-based default font selection broken?

On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Russell King wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It appears that the driver-based (fb_info.fontname) default font name
> selection is broken in 2.3.51.
>
> What is the new way to achieve this?

Since this was such a common function for drivers we made a generic
verious of it. To use it you do

fbcon=font:Acorn8x8

at the boot prompt. To all fbdev driver writers the fb_info.fontname is
now useless. This field is been incorporated into fbcon.c.

"Look it's a text editor, no it's a OS, no it's Emacs"
James Simmons ____/|
fbdev/gfx developer \ o.O|
http://www.linux-fbdev.org =(_)=
http://linuxgfx.sourceforge.net U


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