git: 3630506b9dae - main - loader: implement framebuffer console

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2021-Jan-06 14:50:38 +0200, Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com> wrote:
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>> On 6. Jan 2021, at 12:33, Peter Jeremy <peter at rulingia.com> wrote:
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>> On 2021-Jan-02 20:09:25 +0000, Toomas Soome <tsoome at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>> The branch main has been updated by tsoome:
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>>> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=3630506b9daec9167a89bc4525638ea45a00769e
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>> Note that this commit adds a hard build dependency on vtfontcvt(8)
>> but that tool is depends on the WITH_VT build option.  I suspect
>> that stand/fonts should be likewise dependent on WITH_VT
>> 
>> -- 
>> Peter Jeremy
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>Thanks for pointing this out. We actually need to build vtfontcvt unconditionally, in addition to font files, we also need it to generate C code for built in font (used when there are no /boot/fonts).

That seems to assume that fonts are needed at all - I found this bug on
a Cloud instance that uses a serial console and has no real or simulated
graphical display "hardware".

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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