Plymouth in initramfs - using console font

[Fabian Vogt]

Hi,

Am Montag, 28. März 2016, 17:16:26 CEST schrieb Greg Oliver:
> I need to have plymouth display messages and receive text/passwords while
> still in the initramfs (systemd based).
> 
> I have it all working, but the only way I could get it was to put pango,
> cairo, all the X libraries and TT font inside the initramfs.  I cannot find
> any examples (or anything I have tried) to alleviate having all the extra
> libraries to render text inside the initramfs.
> 
> Does anyone know if this is possible?  I have a graphic on the display at
> the same time as well.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any pointers.
> 
> -Greg
> 

I posted a patch that adds a label plugin that only depends on FreeType
some months ago, but so far I got no response. You may want to try
it yourself: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93808

Cheers,
Fabian

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