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From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: funny framebuffer fonts on PowerBook
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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:11:08 +0800
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 05:37 +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> Interesting... I suspect there is an endian bug in the new font code
> that hits odd sized fonts (or non-multiple-of-8 fonts). Can you try
> enabling 8x8 and 8x16 instead of 6x11 and 7x14 fonts and tell me if
> those work ?
> 
> Tony: If my suspition is confirmed, I think that's your call :)

It probably is, a remnant of the console rotation code.  If that is
truly the case, the patch I just sent in another thread should fix it.

Tony