Add "consolefont" hook to set the console font early

Patch provided by Davorin Učakar, currently only unicode fonts are supported

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/install/consolefont b/install/consolefont
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b39e3b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/install/consolefont
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# vim: set ft=sh:
+
+install ()
+{
+    MODULES=""
+    BINARIES=""
+    FILES=""
+    SCRIPT="consolefont"
+    if [ -n "$CONSOLEFONT" ]; then
+        CONSOLEFONT_FILE_GZ="/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/$CONSOLEFONT.psfu.gz"
+        if [ -e ${CONSOLEFONT_FILE_GZ} ]; then
+	  CONSOLEFONT_FILE="$(mktemp ${TMPDIR}/consolefont.psfu.XXXXXX)"
+	  zcat ${CONSOLEFONT_FILE_GZ} > ${CONSOLEFONT_FILE}
+	  add_file ${CONSOLEFONT_FILE} /consolefont.psfu
+	else
+	  echo "consolefont hook: Console font file must end with .psfu.gz"
+	  echo "consolefont hook: Only unicode fonts are supported at the moment."
+        fi
+    fi
+}
+
+help ()
+{
+cat<<HELPEOF
+  This hook loads consolefont specified in mkinitcpio.conf
+  during early userspace.
+  You should add CONSOLEFONT="font" (same syntax as in rc.conf) to your
+  mkinitcpio.conf. You may also remove the CONSOLEFONT from rc.conf
+  to prevent the font from being set twice and speed up your boot proccess.
+HELPEOF
+}