From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Kevin Du Huanpeng <u74147@gmail.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib:font:fbconsole: add custom font support for review
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 07:59:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151028065902.GT25308@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151026204056.GA23323@L64>
Hi,
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 04:40:56AM +0800, Kevin Du Huanpeng wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 08:18:36AM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> >
> > This patch has several hunks without changes which makes it hard to look
> > at.
> >
> > Somehow this looks like beginning unicode support. Wouldn't it be better
> > to pick the relevant parts we need from unicode and support them?
>
>
> How about store the font data externally, for reasons
> 1. the font data maybe hurge, it take time to burn it to flash make barebox fat.
> 2. the part of font data namally don't change durning the devolopment.
> 3. 'custom' means usless for other application.
> 4. the fontdata maybe stored in a external spi flash and share with OS.
> just pass the base address of index and fontdata or tell barebox how to get the
> font data.
Do you know the pf2 font format? That may be the right candidate for a
font format. See: http://grub.gibibit.com/New_font_format
If we could read this font format we could throw arbitrary unicode fonts
into barebox.
Sascha
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-24 10:38 Du Huanpeng
2015-10-26 7:18 ` Sascha Hauer
2015-10-26 20:40 ` Kevin Du Huanpeng
2015-10-28 6:59 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2015-10-28 8:20 ` Kevin Du Huanpeng
2015-10-28 8:30 ` Sascha Hauer
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