[Cbe-oss-dev] [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 0/7] RFC: Cell SPE logos

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > 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....

Everything drawn on a frame buffer (penguin logos, text console, ...) can
indeed be done from userspace.

> 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?

Do you have in-kernel support for running generic code on those pipelines?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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