[PATCH 2/2] coreboot: Switch to a monospaced font

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Fri Oct 18 01:12:21 CEST 2024


On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 09:09:39PM +0800, Bin Meng wrote:
> + Tom and Anatolij,
>
> On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 5:33 PM Dragan Simic <dsimic at manjaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 2024-01-08 10:29, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > >> From: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > >> Date: Sun,  7 Jan 2024 17:14:55 -0700
> > >>
> > >> The default font is proportional, with different character widths.
> > >> Select a monospace font for coreboot so that the 'dm tree' output
> > >> lines
> > >> up correctly.
> > >>
> > >> Update the coreboot tests to match.
> > >
> > > To be honest, I think defaulting to a proportional font is wrong as a
> > > default for something like U-Boot.
> >
> > I agree, it makes very little sense to default to a proportional font.
> >
>
> So we should revert
>
> commit b093753471c1a30d680868a9f4d9f6db090bf0b7 ("video: Add a default
> TrueType font")

Well, I would "fixes" that commit and drop default y there and instead
make the monospace font the default and explain why the switch, rather
than revert.

-- 
Tom

Applied to u-boot-dm, thanks!


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