Subject: Re: RFC: vesafb, splash screen, and rasops shadowfb patch
To: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
From: Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh@nimenees.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/14/2006 11:33:25
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 12:48:51PM -0400, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> Hey folks, I've been working hard on vesafb lately. It's finally in a
> state where I'm ready for comments. What the patch adds:
>
> * Shadow framebuffer support in rasops; improves scrolling speed
> significantly if no hardware support is available, at the expense of
> additional memory usage.
> * Splash screen support (w/ optional progress bar), shown in place of
> the kernel text at boot time. Enabled with options SPLASH (and options
> SPLASH_PROGRESS)
eww... image in a .h file? How do you convert a normal image file into
that format? Isn't there a better way to insert the image file data into
the kernel?
otherwise, cool!
eric