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Re: [PATCH] font: Try opening fonts from the bundled memdisk
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Daniel Kiper |
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Re: [PATCH] font: Try opening fonts from the bundled memdisk |
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Fri, 28 Apr 2023 15:43:34 +0200 |
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On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 12:06:52PM +0200, Chris Coulson wrote:
> Grub since 93a786a00163e50c29f0394df198518617e1c9a5 has enforced
> verification of font files in secure boot mode. In order to continue to
> be able to load some default fonts, vendors may bundle them with their
> signed EFI image by adding them to the built-in memdisk.
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> This change makes the font loader try loading fonts from the memdisk
> before the prefix path when attempting to load a font file by specifying
> its filename, which avoids having to make changes to grub configurations
> in order to accommodate memdisk bundled fonts. It expects the directory
> structure to be the same as fonts stored in the prefix path
> (ie, /fonts/<name>.pf2).
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> Signed-off-by: Chris Coulson <chris.coulson@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Daniel