[Linux-fbdev-devel] Setting console fonts from userland?

[Adam J. R. <ad...@yg...>]

>> = Geert Uytterhoeven
>  = James Simmons

>> What's wrong with the ancient console ioctl()s to change the font at runtine?
>> (damned, I can't remember the name of the command)
>
>Their is a bunch of them but the one mosted used is KD_FONT_OP_*. Look at
>linux/kd.h for more details. The nice bonus about this is that it is
>driver independent.

	Are there currently GPL-compatible utilities written that
can load the fonts this way?  Are the specific fonts that are in the stock
kernel tree in linux/drivers/video/font_*.c available in this format?
If not, I might be willing to help accomplish this.

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