* Andreas Larsson (andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On 2023-08-07 03:09, linux@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > 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@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Applied to my for-next branch.
Thanks!
Dave
> Thanks,
> Andreas
>
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