linux-kernel - Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 0/7] RFC: Cell SPE logos

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Date:	Wed, 7 Feb 2007 12:44:08 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com>,
	Linux Frame Buffer Device Development 
	<linux-fbdev-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	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: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 0/7] RFC: Cell SPE logos

Hi!

> > > 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....
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> By the same token, there is no excuse to have the logo code at all in
> the kernel in the first place... it's cool though :-) And it's a config
> option, so you don't have to have it....

I believe the old logo code was originally created for compatibility
with Solaris? :-).
							Pavel
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