Hello,

Michael Kelly, le sam. 10 oct. 2026 01:18:44 +0100, a ecrit:
> 3) My biggest worry was how to get a font loaded into the kernel. I think
> that the multiboot module can do that and all that is needed is to strip out
> a special 'boot_font' module from the list as they are translated from
> multiboot2 to multiboot. No need to worry about file system access or
> embedding a font in the kernel itself. The font could be unloaded after boot
> when the user console takes over.

Embedding a basic font in the kernel looks fine enough to me. It can be
e.g. 8-byte per character, covering only ascii, that's just 1KB of data.

> 4) Some code would need to be added to parse a font.

I'd be more afraid of that :)

Samuel

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