By default kiwi stops plymouth if present and active in the initrd. Setting rd.kiwi.allow_plymouth will keep plymouth active in the initrd including all effects that might have to the available consoles.
Drop use of obsolete tool isconsole
isconsole was provided with the dropped kiwi-tools package. It was a simple C application that checked the capabilities of the current console. In the context of fbiterm it was just used to provide proper error messages which fbiterm on its own did not show. As also fbiterm is on its way to become obsolete and isconsole is already no longer present, it's ok to just drop that extra check and therefore keep the fbiterm mode functional if one manages to include fbiterm and its fonts into the initrd
This patch is two fold
Add initrd boot option rd.kiwi.allow_plymouth
By default kiwi stops plymouth if present and active in the initrd. Setting rd.kiwi.allow_plymouth will keep plymouth active in the initrd including all effects that might have to the available consoles.
Drop use of obsolete tool isconsole
isconsole was provided with the dropped kiwi-tools package. It was a simple C application that checked the capabilities of the current console. In the context of fbiterm it was just used to provide proper error messages which fbiterm on its own did not show. As also fbiterm is on its way to become obsolete and isconsole is already no longer present, it's ok to just drop that extra check and therefore keep the fbiterm mode functional if one manages to include fbiterm and its fonts into the initrd