From: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
To: Maarten ter Huurne <maarten@treewalker.org>,
Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Apelete Seketeli <apelete@seketeli.net>,
linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fonts: Add 6x10 font
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:41:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <542A7ADA.4010500@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1410263188-10532-1-git-send-email-maarten@treewalker.org>
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Hi,
On 09/09/14 14:46, Maarten ter Huurne wrote:
> This font is suitable for framebuffer consoles on devices with a
> 320x240 screen, to get a reasonable number of characters (53x24) that
> are still at a readable size.
>
> The font is derived from the existing 6x11 font, but gets 3 extra
> lines without sacrificing readability. Also I redesigned a some glyhps
> so they are more distinct and better fill the available space.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maarten ter Huurne <maarten@treewalker.org>
> ---
> include/linux/font.h | 4 +-
> lib/fonts/Kconfig | 9 +
> lib/fonts/Makefile | 1 +
> lib/fonts/font_6x10.c | 3086 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> lib/fonts/fonts.c | 4 +
> 5 files changed, 3103 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> create mode 100644 lib/fonts/font_6x10.c
I think the patch is fine, but there hasn't been any comments or acks
for this. I'm a bit reluctant to add this much data to the kernel if
there are no users (except you) for this.
So I'd like to hear at least one "yeah, I could maybe use that font"
from someone =).
Tomi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-30 9:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-09 11:46 [PATCH] fonts: Add 6x10 font Maarten ter Huurne
2014-09-30 9:41 ` Tomi Valkeinen [this message]
2014-10-02 12:40 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-10-08 7:25 ` Maarten ter Huurne
2014-10-09 9:02 ` Tomi Valkeinen
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