[ipxe-devel] vesafb questions/suggestions

[Michael Brown]

On 12/01/14 13:38, Oliver Rath wrote:
>>> If I choose 9x16_ALT, on the screen I see only "snowish" lines, unable
>>> to recognice the letters.
>>
>> When you say that you "choose" 9x16_ALT, does this choice involve
>> modifying the source code in any way?  Does an unmodified iPXE produce
>> text as expected?
> I ve choosed it via changing in arch/i386/interface/pcbios/vesafb.c
>
> #define VESAFB_FONT VBE_FONT_8x16
>
> to
>
> #define VESAFB_FONT VBE_FONT_9x16_ALT
>
> The unmodified variant with the first define works well.

What's your motivation for changing it, if the default already works?

Michael