Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:13:59 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ? Message-ID: <86zlufwi4o.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <200802051332.m15DW2WU020689@lurza.secnetix.de> (Oliver Fromme's message of "Tue\, 5 Feb 2008 14\:32\:02 %2B0100 \(CET\)") References: <200802051332.m15DW2WU020689@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> writes: > Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes: > > Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> writes: > > > http://www.secnetix.de/olli/tmp/vloader.png > > This is brilliant! Send patches! :) > Does that mean you're volunteering to be my mentor? :) It means, at the very least, that I have worked on similar code in the kernel (not loader) before, and that I therefore feel competent to at least look over your code. Considering your track record, I'm surprised you haven't found someone to mentor you already. I still remember using QPEG / QPV many years ago; if you agree not to ask me what I used it for, I'll agree not to ask you what you wrote it for :P > BTW, my patches add a few FICL words (forth commands) to the loader > (i386 and amd64 only). They implement simple graphics commands (dots, > lines, triangles, circles), text output using proportional fonts > loaded from the boot device, and display of PCX images. The above > screen shot is simply a PCX background image containing the logo, and > some text for the menu at the top. Very simple. Currently only 16 > color standard VGA modes are supported (4 bit depth), but that should > be sufficient for a start. The kernel splash code supports both BMP (courtesy of Mike Smith, IIRC) and PCX (courtesy of yours truly). I haven't looked at it in years, but I've used it on and off to add splash screens to various FreeBSD-based turn-key solutions I've been involved in. Hey, how about PNG support? Know someone we could ask? ;) It would be very nice if you could generalize this to allow displaying kernel boot messages over a graphical background; I'm not sure that's possible with our current graphical console code. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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