linux-kernel - Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 0/7] RFC: Cell SPE logos

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0702041842070.13690@pademelon.sonytel.be>
Date:	Sun, 4 Feb 2007 18:44:00 +0100 (CET)
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com>
To:	Linux Frame Buffer Device Development 
	<linux-fbdev-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
cc:	James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>,
	Cell Broadband Engine OSS Development 
	<cbe-oss-dev@...abs.org>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 0/7] RFC: Cell SPE logos

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > 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....

Everything drawn on a frame buffer (penguin logos, text console, ...) can
indeed be done from userspace.

> 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?

Do you have in-kernel support for running generic code on those pipelines?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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