Re: [PATCH v2] sparc: Use shared font data

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@treblig.org>]

* Sam Ravnborg (sam@ravnborg.org) wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 12:58:51AM +0100, linux@treblig.org wrote:
> > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@treblig.org>
> > 
> > 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.  The PPC code and the functions
> > I'll look at another time if this patch is OK.
> > 
> > Tested very lightly with a boot without FS in qemu.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
> 
> Looks good, thanks for the fixes.
> Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Thanks

> Let's hope someone picks it up...

I was hoping Dave would, but I realise Sparc doesn't get much
these days.
Of course if anyone feels guilty about their own patches adding code
they can take this patch to make ~340 lines of penance.

Dave

> 	Sam
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