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<damo22>where is vga-dynafont.c

<damo22>is that part of freetype??

<damo22>s/??/?

<youpi>no it's in console-client

<damo22>how does one blit a font

<damo22>so i asked on coreboot and they said seavga cannot switch modes, it only passes the existing framebuffer

<damo22>so yes, we need a graphical console

<youpi>blit is just a memcpy

<youpi>with some stride

<etno>Just a random idea: could VTE help here? (GTK had a fb backend many moons ago) https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/

<youpi>yes

<youpi>on the short term that would still be much more work than just blit :)

<gnucode>maybe it's a dumb question, but I thought the heard already had a graphical console...

<azert>gnucode: not really. The Hurd has an advanced text console with multilingual support really tied to the VGA hardware.

<azert>the design of the console client allows for pluggable backhand drivers, on the other hand

<azert>which is cool. But there isn’t any graphical backhand implemented yet

<gnucode>sneek later tell azert So what you are saying is that the Hurd's console will only display on VGA? I suppose that is a given since we probably don't have drivers for HDMI or display port

<sneek>Okay.

<youpi>gnucode: that's it

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