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* [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] video: Add information about using TrueType fonts
@ 2018-12-27 22:25 Simon Glass
  2018-12-27 22:25 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] video: Add a default TrueType font Simon Glass
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From: Simon Glass @ 2018-12-27 22:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: u-boot

U-Boot supports using TrueType fonts on the console, which is useful for
presenting a nice UI to users, e.g. for system recovery.

Add information about how to compile this on ARM platforms, since this is
not obvious.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
---

 doc/README.video | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/README.video b/doc/README.video
index 09a26b17936..7a30512c96d 100644
--- a/doc/README.video
+++ b/doc/README.video
@@ -75,3 +75,23 @@ The sunxi U-Boot driver supports the following video-mode options:
 For example to always use the hdmi connector, even if no cable is inserted,
 using edid info when available and otherwise initalizing it at 1024x768 at 60Hz,
 use: "setenv video-mode sunxi:1024x768-24 at 60,monitor=dvi,hpd=0,edid=1".
+
+
+TrueType fonts
+--------------
+
+U-Boot supports the use of antialiased TrueType fonts on some platforms. This
+has been tested in x86, ARMv7 and sandbox.
+
+To enable this, select CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRUETYPE. You can choose between several
+fonts, with CONSOLE_TRUETYPE_NIMBUS being the default.
+
+TrueType supports requires floating point at present. On ARMv7 platforms you
+need to disable use of the private libgcc. You can do this by disabling
+CONFIG_USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC. See chromebook_jerry for an example. Note that this
+increases U-Boot's size by about 70KB at present.
+
+On ARM you should also make sure your toolchain supports hardfp. This is
+normally given in the name of your toolchain, e.g. arm-linux-gnueabihf (hf
+means hardware floating point). You can also run gcc with -v to see if it has
+this option.
-- 
2.20.1.415.g653613c723-goog

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2018-12-28 10:46   ` Philipp Tomsich
2018-12-28 21:37   ` Anatolij Gustschin
2018-12-27 22:25 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] video: rockchip: Use TrueType fonts with jerry Simon Glass
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2018-12-28 21:37   ` Anatolij Gustschin
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