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

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Feb 07 2007 - 07:59:40 EST


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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