Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Sunday 23 October 2005 01:24 pm, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: >> I made a draft how video subsystem could work. It doesn't currently >> contain information about internals, but is more concentrated on usage >> of the API. > > It looks good.
Then I'll do the first implementation. It will be only for i386 as that's only platform I can test. >> In order to make GRUB 2's video subsystem more flexible, there is a need >> to modify font manager in order to support more variety of different >> character types. I already tested it with one idea and it seems to work >> nicely, but in order to support more character types I think someone >> else have to give some comments about how glyph's should be defined. > > For the glyph support, it should be based on the font manager, but I haven't > decided the API yet. As a starting point, it would be enough to assume that > we always use a fixed size (currently, 8x16 or mutiples of 8x16). In the > future, we will want to support different size or even vector fonts. I'll will improve current situation a bit to direction of better glyph support, but this needs more work. I will give patch for those too when first implementation is ready. >> Anyway, here is first draft and I would like to get some comments about it: >> >> http://jumi.lut.fi/~vjaaskel/grub2/ > > Can you put the contents on the wiki? This would be easier to maintain the > document. I am not too familiar with syntax of wiki, but here is something: http://grub.enbug.org/VideoSubsystem I will try to improve it's contents later on. Thanks, Vesa Jääskeläinen _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel