Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:52:10 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/4] Cell SPE logos |
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On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:27:02 +0200 > Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > A sample screenshot can be found at > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/debian-penguin-shot.png > > (or on the ps3linux T-shirts we wore at OLS :-) > > Does this mean I'll get penguins on my PS3 now?
Sure!
> > Summaries: > > [1] fbdev: extract fb_show_logo_line() > > [2] fbdev: Add fb_append_extra_logo() > > This one does give additional code and data to all fbdev users while only > being useful to cell machines. Should we fix that?
I can protect it by #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_CELL (as long as there are no other users). Would that be OK?
> > [3] fbdev: SPE helper penguin logo > > [4] Cell: Draw SPE helper penguin logos > > I queued #4 up along with the fbdev patches, even though it isn't really an > fbdev patch.
OK, thanks!
With kind regards,
Geert Uytterhoeven Software Architect
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