Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 0/7] RFC: Cell SPElogos

[James Simmons]

> 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.
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