[PATCH] lib:font:fbconsole: add custom font support for review

[Sascha Hauer]

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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