RE: boot logo size patch

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, 16 May 2002, Torrey Hoffman wrote:
> Rolland Dudemaine wrote:
> > For a *long* time, the boot logo has stayed in the kernel at many 
> > places. Recently, it has been cleaned up to reduce the number of 
> > identical logos. 
> 
> [...]
> 
> If you are interested in cleaning up the boot logo, you may want to
> check out the patch set at www.arnor.net/linuxlogo
> 
> That sequence of six patches begins as you have, moving LOGO_H and 
> LOGO_W into the individual logo files where they belong.
> 
> The second patch introduces a C program "tologo" to the scripts 
> directory.  It converts arbitrary .ppm files to the linux_logo.h 
> format, but is not 100% done (works correctly for 256 color images
> but not the 16 color or black & white ones)

For a program that handles all cases, check out my page:

    http://home.tvd.be/cr26864/Linux/fbdev/logo.html

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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