From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965533AbXBFVnY (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 16:43:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965534AbXBFVnX (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 16:43:23 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:34490 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965533AbXBFVnW (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 16:43:22 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 21:42:58 +0000 (GMT) From: James Simmons To: Linux Frame Buffer Device Development cc: Pavel Machek , Geert Uytterhoeven , Cell Broadband Engine OSS Development , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 0/7] RFC: Cell SPE logos In-Reply-To: <1170641652.2620.89.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <20070204133212.GA2032@elf.ucw.cz> <1170641652.2620.89.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 14:32 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi1 > > > > > I would like to hear your opinions about the patchset below (updated version > > > compared to yesterday, lkml added to the CC list). > > > > Can you just blast these pictures from userspace? There's really no > > excuse to advertise SPEs from kernel.... > > > > What's next, I have powerful Intel graphics chipset in here, perhaps > > it is as powerful as SPE, shall I start adding little pictures for its > > pipelines? > > By the same token, there is no excuse to have the logo code at all in > the kernel in the first place... it's cool though :-) And it's a config > option, so you don't have to have it.... True. Of course we would need a userland interface to splash a logo. I found the logo to be useful to know if the graphics device is alive and working properly.