From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 5 15:14:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EEFF16A417 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 15:14:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE19D13C447 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 15:14:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id A215D207F; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:14:00 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Tests: AWL X-Spam-Learn: disabled X-Spam-Score: -0.3/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on tim.des.no Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2660C207E; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:14:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 087AC844A6; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:14:00 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Oliver Fromme References: <200802051332.m15DW2WU020689@lurza.secnetix.de> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:13:59 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200802051332.m15DW2WU020689@lurza.secnetix.de> (Oliver Fromme's message of "Tue\, 5 Feb 2008 14\:32\:02 +0100 \(CET\)") Message-ID: <86zlufwi4o.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:14:14 -0000 Oliver Fromme writes: > Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav writes: > > Oliver Fromme 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 --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no