Re: [PATCH v3] sparc: Use shared font data

[Randy Dunlap]

On 8/6/23 18:09, 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>

This survives lots of build testing with no problems, so

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

> 
> v3
>   Added 'select FONT_SUPPORT' (to stop modconfig causing the font to be
>    linked into a module rather than the main kernel)
> 
> ---
>  arch/sparc/Kconfig        |   2 +
>  arch/sparc/kernel/btext.c | 365 +-------------------------------------
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 356 deletions(-)

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~Randy