Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: boot logo size patch | Date | Thu, 16 May 2002 17:27:03 -0700 | From | "Torrey Hoffman" <> |
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Rolland Dudemaine wrote:
> For a *long* time, the boot logo has stayed in the kernel at many > places. Recently, it has been cleaned up to reduce the number of > identical logos.
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If you are interested in cleaning up the boot logo, you may want to check out the patch set at www.arnor.net/linuxlogo
That sequence of six patches begins as you have, moving LOGO_H and LOGO_W into the individual logo files where they belong.
The second patch introduces a C program "tologo" to the scripts directory. It converts arbitrary .ppm files to the linux_logo.h format, but is not 100% done (works correctly for 256 color images but not the 16 color or black & white ones)
The third patch adds the generic 80x80 pixel penguin logo as arch/i386/linux_logo.ppm, but other arch-specific logos are missing.
The forth patch modifies the makefiles to generate linux_logo.h at compile time.
The fifth patch removes all 15 (!) now redundant linux_logo.h files, removing 360K of headers from the kernel source.
The sixth patch is somewhat unrelated, and adds options and controls for turning off or adjusting the blink rate of the framebuffer cursor.
Obviously, these patches make it trivial to put any graphic you want in as your boot logo. Just save your image from the Gimp as arch/$(ARCH)/linux_logo.ppm, and recompile... voila!
I am nominally the maintainer of this set of patches. I do plan to forward port it from 2.4.x to 2.5 after James Simmon's big console rewrite has been merged, as well as updating it for 2.4.19 when that comes out.
Comments appreciated...
Torrey Hoffman
thoffman@arnor.net torrey.hoffman@myrio.com
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