console fonts
Greg KH
greg at kroah.com
Fri Sep 19 23:12:23 EDT 2014
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:16:52PM -0400, John de la Garza wrote:
> When I boot up I see the 12x22 fonts for a while then it switches to
> the tiny fonts default font about half way throught the boot process.
>
> My goal is to have the system running with the 12x22 fonts. I do not
> plan to run X. Does anyone know how why it swtiches away from my
> custom fonts ?
>
> running:
> 3.17.0-rc-5+ on a MacBookPro with EFI and booting the kernel
> with the efi-stub from gummiboot.
>
> built with:
> Support for frame buffer devices
> EFI-based Framebuffer
> Support Framebuffer Console support
>
> Select compiled-in fonts
> Sparc console 12x22 font
the kernel EFI framebuffer driver is "odd", and probably can not support
your console fonts. I know mine can not, sorry.
greg k-h
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