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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] sparc: Use shared font data
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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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