Re: console fonts

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On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:16:52PM -0400, John de la Garza wrote:
> When I boot up I see the 12x22 fonts for a while then it switches to
> the tiny fonts default font about half way throught the boot process.
> 
> My goal is to have the system running with the 12x22 fonts.  I do not
> plan to run X.  Does anyone know how why it swtiches away from my
> custom fonts ?
> 
> running:
> 3.17.0-rc-5+ on a MacBookPro with EFI and booting the kernel
> with the efi-stub from gummiboot.
> 
> built with:
> Support for frame buffer devices
> EFI-based Framebuffer
> Support Framebuffer Console support
> 
> Select compiled-in fonts
>         Sparc console 12x22 font

the kernel EFI framebuffer driver is "odd", and probably can not support
your console fonts.  I know mine can not, sorry.

greg k-h

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