Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:16:44 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] sparc: Use shared font data | From | Andreas Larsson <> |
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On 2023-08-07 03:09, 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>
Applied to my for-next branch.
Thanks, Andreas
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