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	<h1 id="pagetop">GRUB payload</h1>
		<p>
			This section relates to the GRUB payload used in libreboot.
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			<li><a href="#grub_font">Setting font in GRUB</a></li>
			<li><a href="#grub_keyboard">GRUB keyboard layouts</a>
				<ul>
					<li><a href="#grub_custom_keyboard">Custom keyboard layout in GRUB</a></li>
					<li><a href="#grub_ukdvorak_keyboard">UK Dvorak keyboard layout in GRUB</a></li>
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	<h1 id="grub_font">Setting font in GRUB (for reference)</h1>

		<p>You don't need to do this unless you would like to change the default font yourself.
		(this is just for reference. It has already been done for you)</p>

		<p>The old font used was Unifont, and this had some missing characters: for instance, the border showed ??? characters instead of lines.</p>

		<p>I tried DeJavu Sans Mono from this website:
		<a href="http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Download">dejavu-fonts.org</a></p>

		<p>Specifically, the version that I chose was the latest at the time of writing (Saturday 21 June 2014):
		<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/dejavu/files/dejavu/2.34/dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.34.tar.bz2">this one</a></p>

		<p>This is a free font that is also contained in GNU/Linux distributions like Trisquel or Parabola.</p>

		<p><b>$ cd libreboot_src/grub</b><br/>
		compile grub ('build' script has the info on how to do this)<br/>
		come back out into libreboot_src/resources/grub:<br/>
		<b>$ cd ../libreboot_src/resources/grub/font</b></p>

		<p>I took Dejavu Sans Mono from dejavu (included in this version of libreboot) and did:<br/>
		<b>$ ../../../grub/grub-mkfont -o dejavusansmono.pf2 ../../../dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.34/ttf/DejaVuSansMono.ttf</b></p>

		<p>I then added the instructions to 'build' script to include resources/grub/dejavusansmono.pf2 in all of the ROM's in root of cbfs.<br/>
		I then added that instructions to the grub.cfg files (to load the font):<br/>
		<b>loadfont (cbfsdisk)/dejavusansmono.pf2</b></p>

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	<h1 id="grub_keyboard">GRUB keyboard layouts (for reference)</h1>

		<h2 id="grub_custom_keyboard">Custom keyboard layout in GRUB (for reference)</h2>

			<p>
				Keymaps are stored in resources/utilities/grub-assemble/keymap/.
			</p>

			<p>
				Example (French Azerty):<br/>
				<b>$ ckbcomp fr &gt; frazerty</b><br/><br/>
				Go in grub directory:<br/>
				<b>cat frazerty | ./grub/grub-mklayout -o frazerty.gkb</b>
			</p>

			<p>
				You must make sure that the files are named keymap and keymap.gkb (where 'keymap' can be whatever you want).
			</p>

			<p>
				Then from the above example, you would put <b>frazerty</b> in <b>resources/utilities/grub-assemble/keymap/original/</b> and
				the <b>frazerty.gkb</b> file goes under <b>resources/utilities/grub-assemble/keymap/</b>
			</p>

			<p>
				The scripts <b>build</b> and <b>buildrom-withgrub</b> will automatically see this, and automatically build
				ROM's with your custom layout (given the name) and include them under bin. Example: <b>libreboot_frazerty.rom</b>.
			</p>

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		<h2 id="grub_ukdvorak_keyboard">UK Dvorak keyboard layout in GRUB (for reference)</h2>

			<p>
				ukdvorak had to be created manually, based on usdvorak. diff them (under resources/utilities/grub-assemble/keymap/original)
				to see how ukdvorak file was created
			</p>

			<p><b>$ cat ukdvorak | ./grub/grub-mklayout -o ukdvorak.gkb</b></p>

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		Copyright &copy; 2014 Francis Rowe &lt;info@gluglug.org.uk&gt;<br/>
		This document is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License and all future versions.
		A copy of the license can be found at <a href="../license.txt">../license.txt</a>.
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