[bug #36878] Autoloading fonts

[Andrei Borzenkov]

Update of bug #36878 (project grub):

                Severity:                   Major => Minor                  
                 Release:          Bazaar - trunk => Git master             

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Follow-up Comment #3:

Font pe-loading is implemented by grub-mkconfig, it will generate code to load
all fonts from $GRUB_THEME directory. It is static so you need to run
grub-mkconfig every time font filenames change or you set different theme.

Font autoloading on demand at runtime is not implemented. Note that you need
file name to do it while theme specifies internal font name. So some mapping
between two is required. This will likely need extending of theme
specification (e.g. fonts.lst in theme directory). Patches are welcome.

Loading all fonts from /boot/grub/fonts is not possible in generally at all.
In some cases we have no possibilities to list directory content (like when
$prefix points to tftp/http) so we must know exact filename to load.

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