On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 9:33 AM Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 01:22:22PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > Ah, here's a hint: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Linux_console#Fonts > > > > The setfont tool should help you out here. > > 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. > 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. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
