Re: VGA driver changes for machines without built-in font

Bang Jun-Young <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Jan 2003 13:40:09 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.arc,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel
Message-ID <20030120044009.GA568@krishna>
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:42:05PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> - In vga_raster.c (for raster console), use wsfont for console fontset
>   rather than loading builtin font in vga_raster_init_screen().

Builtin font is used to give a user the (nearly) same look and feel as
he's running on the real text console. I think process of loading builtin
font can be skipped by checking if font is found in the ROM at boot time,
or it can be configured to do so.

Jun-Young

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Bang Jun-Young <[email protected]>