[SLOF] [PATCH] Replace the SLOF logo to improve its readability

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 04:26:40PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 25.04.2017 15:35, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> > On 25/04/17 20:21, Thomas Huth wrote:
> >> The current SLOF logo ASCII art is rather hard to read and also looks
> >> rather ugly in my opinion. Replace it with another ASCII art that is
> >> more readable.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >>  BTW, maybe we should rather get rid of the logo completely instead?
> > 
> > I can imagine someone having an expect script which waits for this exact logo.
> 
> That sounds sick. In that case, it's time to update their expect scripts.
> 
> >>  Does it still make sense to waste precious boot cycles with this nowadays?
> > 
> > How much does it save?
> 
> With VGA enabled:
> 
> milliseconds .slof-logo milliseconds swap - .d
> 
> ==> 660 milliseconds

Wow, that's pretty bad.

> Printing the logo is just a waste of time and space on the screen. Or do
> you really like it and want to keep it?
> 
>  Thomas
> 
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