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

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Sonntag, den 26.07.2009, 10:38 +0200 schrieb 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.

The change is just for grub-mkconfig, which isn't at all used by
grub-mkrescue.
It would still use ascii.pf2 if there's no unicode.pf2

> 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

If anyone wants to have gfxterm on a floppy, he/she could just use
grub-mkrescue with --overlay
A custom grub.cfg would be good anyway in that case and then you could
just copy ascii.pf2 there too.


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Felix Zielcke
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