Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Nov 2020 03:37:39 -0500 | From | Peilin Ye <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] console: Miscellaneous clean-ups, do not use FNTCHARCNT() in fbcon.c |
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 04:10:57PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 9:33 AM Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com> wrote: > > setfont seems to work fine, I tried Georgian-Fixed16 (256 chars) and > > Uni2-VGA16 (512 chars) under /usr/share/consolefonts/ in my Ubuntu box, > > including setting all consoles to the same font: > > > > for i in {1..6}; do > > sudo setfont -C /dev/tty${i} /usr/share/consolefonts/Georgian-Fixed16.psf.gz > > done > > > > Font rotation also seems to work fine: > > > > for i in {1..4}; do > > echo $i | sudo tee /sys/class/graphics/fbcon/rotate > > sleep 1 > > done > > Thanks a lot for checking all this.
Not a problem, watching my console rotating was fun :)
> > One last thing I can think of is tile blitting, but I don't have the > > hardware (e.g. a Matrox G400 card, see FB_TILEBLITTING in > > drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig) at hand, nor did I figure out how to > > simulate it after searching for a while. However based on the other > > tests above I believe vc->vc_font.charcount is set properly. > > tbh I'll just go ahead and delete it if it's broken :-) > > Userspace we have to keep working (and there's actually people > creating new products on top of drm display drivers using fbdev > emulation and /dev/fb/0 interface!), but kernel internal stuff like > fbcon acceleration we can trim pretty aggressively I think.
Ah, I see, I'll leave it be, then.
Thanks, Peilin Ye
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