Plymouth in initramfs - using console font

[Greg Oliver]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Fabian Vogt <fvogt at suse.com> wrote:

> 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
>

Thanks Fabian - I guess I should have prefaced that I have all of this
working (with the bloated initramfs) under rhel6.  Once I try to migrate to
rhel7, everything goes to hell.  I cannot even set debugu and get output to
a file :/

I'll of course figure it out, and try your patches tomorrow when I get back
on the subject.  The only difference is that I was using basic plymouth*
commands under "init" in rhel6, but rhel7 uses systemd, so I moved to
systemd-ass-password, etc - still no go..

Thanks for the reference to the patches though - I am sure I can finally
shrink the initramfs back to a sane size once I get the scripts going..

I sure wish systemd let the basic commands still work..  echo, read,
etc...  Leonnart sure thought he wasw important when he changed all basic
functionality...  He should be shot for not making a transition layer..

Thanks again - Greg
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