[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 0/6] RFC Cell SPE logos

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 02:19 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 January 2007 19:00, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > The Cell Broadband Engine contains a 64-bit PowerPC core with 2 hardware
> > threads (called PPEs) and 8 Synergistic Processing Engines (called SPEs).
> > When booting Linux, 2 penguins logos are shown on the graphical console.
> > 
> > To emphasize the existence of the SPEs (which can be used under Linux), we
> > added a second row of (smaller) helper Penguin logos, one for each SPE.
> 
> I love the small penguins, they're cute!
> 
> You should probably run this patch set through linux-kernel at vger though,
> so see if there are people around there objecting to the idea. The patches
> all look good from a technical point, except for the fact that the existing
> fb boot logo is a gross hack to start with, but I don't think anyone is
> arguing for getting rid of that.

Well, the fb boot logo might be a gross hack but didnt Geert write it in
the first place ? :-)

Ben.