Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
