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

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hi Dave!

On Tue, 2023-07-25 at 16:53 +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * 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.

You can ask Andrew Morton to pick it up through his tree. He usually does
that when no one else is willing to pick a patch up.

Adrian

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