[PATCH 3/5] video console: add support for fonts wider than 1 byte

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Thu Dec 29 23:38:51 CET 2022


Hi Dzmitry,

On Mon, 26 Dec 2022 at 13:50, Dzmitry Sankouski <dsankouski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Devices with high ppi may benefit from wider fonts.
>
> Current width implementation is limited by 1 byte, i.e. 8 bits.
> New version iterates VIDEO_FONT_BYTE_WIDTH times, to process all
> width bytes, thus allowing fonts wider than 1 byte.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dzmitry Sankouski <dsankouski at gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/video/console_simple.c | 79 ++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  include/video_font_4x6.h       |  2 +
>  include/video_font_data.h      |  2 +
>  3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/console_simple.c b/drivers/video/console_simple.c
> index 20087a30af..3ae1fbdc89 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/console_simple.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/console_simple.c
> @@ -61,30 +61,32 @@ static int fill_char_horizontally(uchar *pfont, void **line, struct video_priv *
>  {
>         int ret;
>         void *dst;
> -       u8 mask = 0x80;
> -
> +       u8 mask;
>         ret = check_bpix_support(vid_priv->bpix);
>         if (ret)
>                 return ret;
>
> -       for (int col = 0; col < VIDEO_FONT_WIDTH; col++) {
> -               dst = *line;
> -               for (int row = 0; row < VIDEO_FONT_HEIGHT; row++) {
> -                       u32 value = (pfont[row * VIDEO_FONT_BYTE_WIDTH + col] & mask) ?
> -                                               vid_priv->colour_fg :
> -                                               vid_priv->colour_bg;
> -
> -                       ret = fill_pixel_and_goto_next(&dst,
> -                                                      value,
> -                                                      VNBYTES(vid_priv->bpix),
> -                                                      direction
> -                       );
> +       for (int col = 0; col < VIDEO_FONT_BYTE_WIDTH; col++) {
> +               mask = 0x80;
> +               for (int bit = 0; bit < 8; bit++) {
> +                       dst = *line;
> +                       for (int row = 0; row < VIDEO_FONT_HEIGHT; row++) {
> +                               u32 value = (pfont[row * VIDEO_FONT_BYTE_WIDTH + col] & mask) ?
> +                                                       vid_priv->colour_fg :
> +                                                       vid_priv->colour_bg;
> +
> +                               ret = fill_pixel_and_goto_next(&dst,
> +                                                              value,
> +                                                              VNBYTES(vid_priv->bpix),
> +                                                              direction
> +                               );
> +                       }
> +                       if (direction)
> +                               *line += vid_priv->line_length;
> +                       else
> +                               *line -= vid_priv->line_length;
> +                       mask >>= 1;
>                 }
> -               if (direction)
> -                       *line += vid_priv->line_length;
> -               else
> -                       *line -= vid_priv->line_length;
> -               mask >>= 1;
>         }
>         return ret;
>  }
> @@ -101,24 +103,29 @@ static int fill_char_vertically(uchar *pfont, void **line, struct video_priv *vi
>                 return ret;
>         for (int row = 0; row < VIDEO_FONT_HEIGHT; row++) {
>                 dst = *line;
> -               uchar bits = pfont[row];
> -
> -               for (int i = 0; i < VIDEO_FONT_WIDTH; i++) {
> -                       u32 value = (bits & 0x80) ?
> -                               vid_priv->colour_fg :
> -                               vid_priv->colour_bg;
> -
> -                       ret = fill_pixel_and_goto_next(&dst,
> -                                                      value,
> -                                                      VNBYTES(vid_priv->bpix),
> -                                                      direction
> -                       );
> -                       bits <<= 1;
> +               uchar bits;
> +
> +               for (int i = 0; i < VIDEO_FONT_BYTE_WIDTH; i++) {
> +                       bits = pfont[i];
> +                       for (int bit = 0; bit < 8; bit++) {
> +                               u32 value = (bits & 0x80) ?
> +                                       vid_priv->colour_fg :
> +                                       vid_priv->colour_bg;
> +
> +                               ret = fill_pixel_and_goto_next(&dst,
> +                                                              value,
> +                                                              VNBYTES(vid_priv->bpix),
> +                                                              direction
> +                               );
> +                               bits <<= 1;
> +                       }
>                 }
>                 if (direction)
>                         *line -= vid_priv->line_length;
>                 else
>                         *line += vid_priv->line_length;
> +
> +               pfont += VIDEO_FONT_BYTE_WIDTH;
>         }
>         return ret;
>  }
> @@ -177,7 +184,7 @@ static int console_putc_xy(struct udevice *dev, uint x_frac, uint y, char ch)
>         int pbytes = VNBYTES(vid_priv->bpix);
>         int x, linenum, ret;
>         void *start, *line;
> -       uchar *pfont = video_fontdata + (u8)ch * VIDEO_FONT_HEIGHT;
> +       uchar *pfont = video_fontdata + (u8)ch * VIDEO_FONT_CHAR_PIXEL_DATA_SIZE;

Too long :-) How about VIDEO_FONT_PIXEL_BYTES ?

>
>         if (x_frac + VID_TO_POS(vc_priv->x_charsize) > vc_priv->xsize_frac)
>                 return -EAGAIN;
> @@ -286,7 +293,7 @@ static int console_putc_xy_1(struct udevice *dev, uint x_frac, uint y, char ch)
>         int pbytes = VNBYTES(vid_priv->bpix);
>         int x, linenum, ret;
>         void *start, *line;
> -       uchar *pfont = video_fontdata + (u8)ch * VIDEO_FONT_HEIGHT;
> +       uchar *pfont = video_fontdata + (u8)ch * VIDEO_FONT_CHAR_PIXEL_DATA_SIZE;
>
>         if (x_frac + VID_TO_POS(vc_priv->x_charsize) > vc_priv->xsize_frac)
>                 return -EAGAIN;
> @@ -357,7 +364,7 @@ static int console_putc_xy_2(struct udevice *dev, uint x_frac, uint y, char ch)
>         int pbytes = VNBYTES(vid_priv->bpix);
>         int linenum, x, ret;
>         void *start, *line;
> -       uchar *pfont = video_fontdata + (u8)ch * VIDEO_FONT_HEIGHT;
> +       uchar *pfont = video_fontdata + (u8)ch * VIDEO_FONT_CHAR_PIXEL_DATA_SIZE;
>
>         if (x_frac + VID_TO_POS(vc_priv->x_charsize) > vc_priv->xsize_frac)
>                 return -EAGAIN;
> @@ -432,7 +439,7 @@ static int console_putc_xy_3(struct udevice *dev, uint x_frac, uint y, char ch)
>         int pbytes = VNBYTES(vid_priv->bpix);
>         int linenum, x, ret;
>         void *start, *line;
> -       uchar *pfont = video_fontdata + (u8)ch * VIDEO_FONT_HEIGHT;
> +       uchar *pfont = video_fontdata + (u8)ch * VIDEO_FONT_CHAR_PIXEL_DATA_SIZE;
>
>         if (x_frac + VID_TO_POS(vc_priv->x_charsize) > vc_priv->xsize_frac)
>                 return -EAGAIN;
> diff --git a/include/video_font_4x6.h b/include/video_font_4x6.h
> index c7e6351b64..f1eb2af861 100644
> --- a/include/video_font_4x6.h
> +++ b/include/video_font_4x6.h
> @@ -43,7 +43,9 @@ __END__;
>
>  #define VIDEO_FONT_CHARS       256
>  #define VIDEO_FONT_WIDTH       4
> +#define VIDEO_FONT_BYTE_WIDTH  VIDEO_FONT_WIDTH / 8 + (VIDEO_FONT_WIDTH % 8 > 0)

Please add brackets around the whole thing.

>  #define VIDEO_FONT_HEIGHT      6
> +#define VIDEO_FONT_CHAR_PIXEL_DATA_SIZE        VIDEO_FONT_HEIGHT * VIDEO_FONT_BYTE_WIDTH
>  #define VIDEO_FONT_SIZE                (VIDEO_FONT_CHARS * VIDEO_FONT_HEIGHT)
>
>  static unsigned char video_fontdata[VIDEO_FONT_SIZE] = {
> diff --git a/include/video_font_data.h b/include/video_font_data.h
> index 6e64198d1a..6a575e6d15 100644
> --- a/include/video_font_data.h
> +++ b/include/video_font_data.h
> @@ -11,7 +11,9 @@
>
>  #define VIDEO_FONT_CHARS       256
>  #define VIDEO_FONT_WIDTH       8
> +#define VIDEO_FONT_BYTE_WIDTH  VIDEO_FONT_WIDTH / 8 + (VIDEO_FONT_WIDTH % 8 > 0)
>  #define VIDEO_FONT_HEIGHT      16
> +#define VIDEO_FONT_CHAR_PIXEL_DATA_SIZE        VIDEO_FONT_HEIGHT * VIDEO_FONT_BYTE_WIDTH
>  #define VIDEO_FONT_SIZE                (VIDEO_FONT_CHARS * VIDEO_FONT_HEIGHT)
>
>  static unsigned char __maybe_unused video_fontdata[VIDEO_FONT_SIZE] = {
> --
> 2.30.2
>

Can you also please add some tests to video.c for this. Also this
should have support for console_rotate.c too.

Regards,
Simon


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