Re: 2.6.33-rc3 -- Intel 945GME (inteldrmfb) -- Two Tux images displayed are side by side (should only show one).

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Jan 06 2010 - 13:25:52 EST


On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 13:10 -0500, Miles Lane wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 12:16 -0500, Miles Lane wrote:
> >> For a long time I have gotten two pictures of Tux showing up when I
> >> include the Tux display option in my custom kernel builds.
> >
> > Doesn't it show one for each cpu in the system?
>
> Apparently so. And, why this should be true is beyond me.

drivers/video/fbmem.c:

int fb_show_logo(struct fb_info *info, int rotate)
{
int y;

y = fb_show_logo_line(info, rotate, fb_logo.logo, 0,
num_online_cpus());
y = fb_show_extra_logos(info, y, rotate);

return y;
}


I guess its just a cute way of showing off how many cpus you've got ;-)

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