From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([2001:67c:670:201:290:27ff:fe1d:cc33]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1ZrKhg-0005CE-R4 for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2015 06:59:25 +0000 Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 07:59:02 +0100 From: Sascha Hauer Message-ID: <20151028065902.GT25308@pengutronix.de> References: <1445683088-25675-1-git-send-email-u74147@gmail.com> <20151026071836.GQ14356@pengutronix.de> <20151026204056.GA23323@L64> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151026204056.GA23323@L64> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "barebox" Errors-To: barebox-bounces+u.kleine-koenig=pengutronix.de@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib:font:fbconsole: add custom font support for review To: Kevin Du Huanpeng Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org 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 -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox