From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
To: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kbd@lists.linux.dev, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] VT: Add KDFONTINFO ioctl
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:35:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f3e4e710-a392-4924-94c1-6dd52c803f9a@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Zio5JfRBvzxuVUbX@example.org>
On 4/25/24 13:06, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 12:33:28PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
>>>>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kd.h b/include/uapi/linux/kd.h
>>>>> index 8ddb2219a84b..68b715ad4d5c 100644
>>>>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/kd.h
>>>>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/kd.h
>>>>> @@ -185,6 +185,20 @@ struct console_font {
>>>>>
>>>>> #define KD_FONT_FLAG_DONT_RECALC 1 /* Don't recalculate hw charcell size [compat] */
>>>>>
>>>>> +/* font information */
>>>>> +
>>>>> +#define KD_FONT_INFO_FLAG_LOW_SIZE _BITUL(0) /* 256 */
>>>>> +#define KD_FONT_INFO_FLAG_HIGH_SIZE _BITUL(1) /* 512 */
>>>>
>>>> Do we really need those bits?
>>>> You set a default min/max font size in con_font_info() above,
>>>> and all drivers can override those values.
>>>> So, there are always min/max sizes available.
>>>
>>> These bits are not about the minimum and maximum glyph size, but about the
>>> number of glyphs in the font.
>>>
>>> Maybe this is an overkill, but sticon has this check:
>>>
>>> if ((w < 6) || (h < 6) || (w > 32) || (h > 32) || (vpitch != 32)
>>> || (op->charcount != 256 && op->charcount != 512))
>>>
>>> [ to be honest, I don’t know why this driver doesn’t accept a glyph of
>>> width 4 ]
>>
>> I think there was no technical limitation when I added that.
>> It's just that the font would be so small...
>
> If so, then I can remove min_height/min_width from the ioctl structure.
> And most likely the flags can also be left empty since at the moment all
> drivers support 512.
Yes, I think that's ok.
Helge
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-25 11:35 UTC|newest]
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2024-03-12 14:23 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] VT: Add ability to get font requirements legion
2024-03-12 14:23 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] VT: Add KDFONTINFO ioctl legion
2024-03-15 9:15 ` Helge Deller
2024-03-12 14:23 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] VT: Allow to get max font width and height legion
2024-03-13 17:40 ` Oleg Bulatov
2024-04-02 11:09 ` Jiri Slaby
2024-03-15 9:16 ` Helge Deller
2024-04-02 10:32 ` [RESEND PATCH v3 0/2] VT: Add ability to get font requirements Alexey Gladkov
2024-04-02 10:32 ` [RESEND PATCH v3 1/2] VT: Add KDFONTINFO ioctl Alexey Gladkov
2024-04-02 11:02 ` Jiri Slaby
2024-04-02 13:19 ` Alexey Gladkov
2024-04-03 5:27 ` Jiri Slaby
2024-04-10 16:29 ` Alexey Gladkov
2024-04-10 17:11 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-04-02 17:50 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] VT: Add ability to get font requirements Alexey Gladkov
2024-04-02 17:50 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] VT: Use macros to define ioctls Alexey Gladkov
2024-04-02 17:50 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] VT: Add KDFONTINFO ioctl Alexey Gladkov
2024-04-03 4:55 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-04-03 5:05 ` Jiri Slaby
2024-04-10 16:36 ` Alexey Gladkov
2024-04-11 3:53 ` Jiri Slaby
2024-04-02 17:50 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] VT: Allow to get max font width and height Alexey Gladkov
2024-04-17 17:37 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] VT: Add ability to get font requirements Alexey Gladkov
2024-04-17 17:37 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] VT: Use macros to define ioctls Alexey Gladkov
2024-04-18 6:18 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-04-17 17:37 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] VT: Add KDFONTINFO ioctl Alexey Gladkov
2024-04-17 19:31 ` Helge Deller
2024-04-18 10:45 ` Alexey Gladkov
2024-04-25 10:33 ` Helge Deller
2024-04-25 11:06 ` Alexey Gladkov
2024-04-25 11:35 ` Helge Deller [this message]
2024-04-18 6:18 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-04-18 10:27 ` Alexey Gladkov
2024-04-17 17:37 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] VT: Allow to get max font width and height Alexey Gladkov
2024-04-02 10:32 ` [RESEND PATCH v3 2/2] " Alexey Gladkov
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