On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 05:48:48PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > For the Kernel bootsplash, a guy at SUSE wrote a jpeg decoder in > roughly 8k.
Would that be Oliver Fromme? :) > That plus a jpeg will be smaller than a lzmaed raw image in almost > all cases. JPEG is great for photos, not so good for quality of painted graphics, but the size benefit is important. > > > * Maybe the bootloader should take care? > > > > > > What do you think? I really don't know. > > > > How does GRUB2 feel about it? > > If it's a seperate stage, grub2 (linuxbios version) might want to > know how to switch it off anyways. But making it a seperate stage > would for sure be a good idea as nobody feels offended by having > to maintain that graphics stuff "in their stage" :-) Yep, nice and isolated. //Peter -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
