Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: New logo code (fwd)

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > The current logo code is messy, complex, and inflexible. So I decided to
> > rewrite it. My goals were:
> >   - Logos must be accessible easily by an image editor (currently: hex C source
> >     data must be converted to another format first)
> >   - Logos must be stored in ASCII-form in the source tree
> >   - Support arbitrary logo sizes (currently: fixed 80x80)
> >   - Allow the logo to be selected statically (at compile time) and/or
> >     dynamically (at run-time, based on machine type) (currently: at compile
> >     time only).
> >   - Allow simple adition of new logos
> >   - Support grayscale logos (not used yet)
> > 
> > The patch achieves all of these. Logos are stored in ASCII PNM format in
> > drivers/video/logo/, and automatically converted to hex C source arrays using
> > scripts/pnmtologo. I chose ASCII PNM because (a) it's ASCII, (b) it's very
> > simple to parse without an external library (XPM is more difficult to parse),
> > and (c) it can be handled by many image manipulation programs.
> > 
> > Code that wants to display a logo just calls fb_find_logo(), specifying the
> > wanted logo type, and receives a pointer to a suitable logo (or NULL).
> > 
> > I also modified fb_show_logo() to return the number of scanlines that are used
> > by the logo, so fbcon knows how many lines to reserve.
> 
> I put a new version at
> 
>     http://home.tvd.be/cr26864/Linux/fbdev/linux-logo-2.5.59.diff.bz2
> 
> Changes:
>   - Merge with 2.5.59
>   - New logo (CLUT224 only) for PA-RISC
>   - Let hgafb and newport_con include logo sources directly, since they need
>     access to the logos in non-init code
> 
> All comments are welcomed! Thanks!

Come on, is there really no one to comment on this??

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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