Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965531AbXBFWG2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 17:06:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965511AbXBFWG2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 17:06:28 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:39561 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965496AbXBFWG1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 17:06:27 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 22:06:22 +0000 (GMT) From: James Simmons To: Geert Uytterhoeven cc: Linux Frame Buffer Device Development , Cell Broadband Engine OSS Development , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] RFC: Cell SPE logos In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1576 Lines: 34 > I would like to hear your opinions about the patchset below (updated version > compared to yesterday, lkml added to the CC list). > > The Cell Broadband Engine contains a 64-bit PowerPC core with 2 hardware > threads (called PPEs) and 8 Synergistic Processing Engines (called SPEs). > When booting Linux, 2 penguins logos are shown on the graphical console by > the standard frame buffer console logo code. > > To emphasize the existence of the SPEs (which can be used under Linux), we > added a second row of (smaller) helper penguin logos, one for each SPE. > I attached a PNG version of the helper penguin logo for reference. > > Summaries: > [PATCH 1/7] fbdev: Avoid vertical overflow when making space for the logo > [PATCH 2/7] fbdev: fb_do_show_logo() updates > [PATCH 3/7] fbdev: extract fb_show_logo_line() > [PATCH 4/7] fbdev: move logo externs to header file > [PATCH 5/7] fbdev: Add fb_append_extra_logo() > [PATCH 6/7] fbdev: SPE helper penguin logo > [PATCH 7/7] Cell: Draw SPE helper penguin logos > > Thanks for your comments! Now that their are patches for the logo I would like to see a few more improvements that I haven't gotten too. I really like to see the logo drawn outside of fbcon. This way for embedded platforms without fbcon we could have the logo to know if the graphics device worked. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/