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Hello,

> > > I thought we're stuck by the font OFW provided us, but looks like
> > > not.
> >=20
> > No, definitely not :) macppc's ofb driver just defaults to the ROM
> > font when screen resolution is below 1024x768 ( something we should
> > get rid of I think ). On the other hand it makes some sense since
> > most Old World Macs have braindead OpenFirmware that always starts
> > in 640x480 ( and have no way to change that ), most newer Macs use
> > whatever MacOS set up ( and have ways to change resolution from OF )
>=20
> It makes a LOT of sense. The problem is that if we used the big font
> on a small screen, we ended up with a 57 column screen. sysinst would
> then do something in the install that would panic() the system. That
> was no fun...

Eh, that sounds ... weird. Definitely not a good reason to panic.
What I meant is - it should be configurable which font we use.
And - wouldn't it make more sense to fall back to a smaller font ( ROM
font or not ) only when we can't get at least 80 columns with whatever
font the user wants? The current code would use the ROM font in 640x480
even if the compiled-in font is small enough ( like 8x8 or so )

have fun
Michael

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