Send plymouth mailing list submissions to
[email protected]
To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/plymouth
or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
[email protected]
You can reach the person managing the list at
[email protected]
When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
than "Re: Contents of plymouth digest..."
Today's Topics:
1. Re: Bitmap text renderer (Ray Strode)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Message: 1
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:24:34 -0400
From: Ray Strode <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Bitmap text renderer
To: Charlie Brej <[email protected]>
Cc: plymouth <[email protected]>
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Hi,
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Charlie Brej <[email protected]> wrote:
> Noticed some people were having problems wanting text messages before / is
> mounted. How about a bitmap text renderer? I hacked one up. It is pretty
> small (7kb compiled stripped).
I pushed this to the bitmap-label-control branch here:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/plymouth/log/?h=bitmap-label-control
Did you write all those glyphs by hand?! that must have taken time :-)
I think this approach might be useful for some use cases, but it has a
big drawback:
1) Still requires copying translations to the initrd
2) Doesn't have sufficient font converage to render strings in
arbitrary languages.
It's a hard problem, which is why we've traditionally said "don't show
messages until / is mounted".
--Ray
------------------------------
_______________________________________________
plymouth mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/plymouth
End of plymouth Digest, Vol 13, Issue 5
***************************************
