Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 18:01:24 -0500 From: "Alfred Perlstein" <perlsta@sunyit.edu> To: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert@primenet.com>, "Mike Smith" <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: "Mike Smith" <mike@smith.net.au>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Splash screen (splashkit) for 3.0 systems... Message-ID: <199801061911.TAA11434@fang.cs.sunyit.edu>
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where can i get information on this splashkit thing? ---------- > From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> > To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> > Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>; hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Splash screen (splashkit) for 3.0 systems... > Date: Tuesday, January 06, 1998 4:58 PM > > > > Before bundling and releasing this (or just plastering it into -current > > > 8) I'm looking for: > > > > > > - Testers. Naturally, I need people to find my bugs. 8) > > > > > > - A better image format. The DIB (.BMP) format is relatively easy to > > > work with, but a 320x200x8 image runs the best part of 64k, which is > > > slow to load from floppy and wastes valuable core. > > > > .... > > > > > Comments? > > > > Actually, I'd suggest sticking with the format Windows 95 uses; that > > would let you use all of the splash screens that people have made > > for Windows 95. I kind of like the idea of being able to use the > > color cycle animations, as well... maybe next rev? > > That's DIB (aka .BMP). Unfortunately, historically this format has > been compressed/uncompressed by the video driver (!), and we all know > how reliable Windows video drivers are. So nobody seems to support > compressing the rotten things. > > Colour cycling would be quite feasible, and relatively simple to add. > > > Also, you might want to consider delaying until ELF kernels; that > > would let you put the image in an ELF section. Alternately, put > > a file called "bootimage" (or whatever) in "/" where the boot help > > resides, and read it out of the FS. > > Didn't I make that obvious? That's how it's done already; effectively > the "extras" section is a hack to add more sections to the a.out > format, but the image is read from the file "/splash" by the bootstrap. > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ > >
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