Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 May 1998 21:26:12 -0400 (EDT) | From | ADAM Sulmicki <> | Subject | Re: [rather long] The Masses Have Spoken on the Boot Logo Topic :) |
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On Fri, 15 May 1998, Phil's Kernel Account wrote:
-> Logo by Default [INLINE] [INLINE] [INLINE] 45 / 34%
Yeah, but how many of those realize complexity of issue.
In windows world, if something does not work, you are told to upgrade your hardware.
On the other hand, in linux world, if you want to get some thing to work you do it in software way.
Now the question is how many of those people who whoted "Logo By Default" realize the complexity of issue.
In case if Windows, you are told that you are to have AT LEAST *Intel* 486, 16mb of ram and vga card(color monitor)/hdd [recalling min req from memory]; OR it will not work for you.
And if it does not work for you, they will [at best] laugh at you.
Now if you want to make logo under linux, you want make it for: Alpha,Arm,I386,mk68k(amiga,atari),mips,PPC(IBM RS/6000 PPC based,Power Mac),Sparc,Sparc64, and other.
You have to realize that in case of linux, to make it works you basically need just cpu/ram/mb/nic with netboot capability. It does not have any gfx (or even txt processing capability at all!). ... or it may have serial console .. or simple MGA or HGC (royal pain in butt to progam in gfx mode).. CGA, MGA You also have to consider grayscale and BW montitors (yes BW only, no gray scale), you have consider monitors which does not match capabilities of gfx card (and thus possibility of monitor damage). [for example I have an simple 12" BW monitor (vga only) connected to SVGA capable card]
.. so no, logo by default is crazy idea.
However, there is an solution, you may opt to support only IA32 IFF it has *VGA* gfx capable card and opt to display simple 640x320x8bpp logo. It is what windows do after all even though the logo loooks pretty I strongly belive it is only 8bpp bitmap. .. just this and nothing more, it will work for this "majority" and hopefully "minority" can show understanding.
...after all I belive sparcs have an simple logo when they boot up but those are sparcs and nothing matches complexity of PC/AT compatibile world.
and once again, and compile time option, turned off by default. [you will have to make bzImage if you want use the logo and understand minium requirements of such logo]
-Adam
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