Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 13 May 1998 18:51:48 -0500 (EST) | | From | Martin Murray <> | | Subject | Number of things. |
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A. Boot Logo A. GGI
A graphical boot loader with a graphical would be easy to integrate employing GGI. Of course, you wouldn't get much ability to use the video card because most of ggi is in its userland libraries, there probably is enough brains inside the kernel with kgi to throw up a pretty splash.
Also, as I understand the BMP format, with higher than 8bpp it stores images with 32 bpp width. Sometimes employing RLE. A JPG decompressor would be stupid to have inside the kernel, much useless bloat. The Gzipped bitmap wouldn't be a bad idea, smaller probably than a BMP but not as small as a full fledged graphics format.
Also would be neat to be able to release the memmory that the bitmap took when stored in the kernel after use...
B. Text mode
If anyone has tried GGI, you'll undoubtedly have seen their neat equivalent of a splash logo when the computer starts up. I think that is a very good example of good TextMode art. Something like that would work best on most x86 architectures. Although, I think more architectures support graphics modes than ibm text modes, a text image takes a _LOT_ less and code space. :)
B. PPC Board
I'm a High School/College (dual-enrolled) student. I'd like to build a PPC based computer, needn't be horribly complicated the first time however I would like to make a decent linux aimed computer. I was thinking that implementing something with a 603e and the mpc106 wouldn't be *horribly* hard. Has anyone done anything like this who could point me in the right direction? I have a vague concept of what I have to do and I've taken electronics at the high school. Mostly, I'm not sure how to design parts of the circuit and how to interface the roms for boot. I think I can manage most everything else. :) Any comments, suggestions, help, or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you, Martin.
Martin Murray
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