With proportional fonts the vidconsole uclass cannot itself erase the
previous character. Provide an optional method so that the driver can
handle this operation.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When we start a new line (due to the user pressing return), signal this to
the driver so that it can flush its buffer of character positions.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Allow the left margin to be set so that text does not have to be right up
against the left side. On some panels this makes it hard to read.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
With anti-aliased fonts we need a more fine-grained horizontal position
than a single pixel. Characters can be positioned to start part-way through
a pixel, with anti-aliasing (greyscale edges) taking care of the visual
effect.
To cope with this, use fractional units (1/256 pixel) for horizontal
positions in the text console.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
[agust: rebased]
Signed-off-by: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>
The existing LCD/video interface suffers from conflating the bitmap display
with text output on that display. As a result the implementation is more
complex than it needs to me.
We can support multiple text console drivers. Create a separate uclass to
support this, with its own API.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>
