Re: [PATCH] Faster text rendering by optimizing font glyph lookup

[Michal Suchanek]

On 25/07/2009, Felix Zielcke <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 25.07.2009, 18:04 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan:
>
> > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:17:59PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
>  > >
>  > > So if there still won't come up objections against this, then I'll do
>  > > the change, then at least an Ubuntu bug report can be closed.
>  >
>  > I think it's fine, but is this an upstream change or a debian change?  IIRC
>  > the default font selection is in grub-mkconfig.
>  >
>
>
> Upstream. There you changed the default from unicode.pff to ascii.pff.
>

The default font for generating a rescue floppy image should be ascii
because the unicode font won't fit.

However, I could not find any font at all on the floppy, and it is
probably not required in any environment that supports floppy booting
so I am not sure if there is any reason for including it except for
easy testing of graphics.

Thanks

Michal