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From: Wayne Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5] showing a splash picture when start, seabios image for test
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:59:25 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E126FFD.4030507@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201107041931.53499.paul@codesourcery.com>

于 2011-7-5 2:31, Paul Brook 写道:
>>       jpeg decoder have its limitation, it only accept jpg file with
>> width=16*M, height=16*N.
>>       bmp decoder only accept 24bpp file, with a resolution that a video
>> mode could support. Recommended is 640x480(mostly used).
>
> Doing image decoding in the bios seems particularly pointless.  Why don't you
> just pass the bios raw image data?
>
> If you really want to directly support fancier formats IMO it makes much more
> sense to do that in qemu itself.  There we can use the same libraries as
> everyone else (libjpeg, libpng, etc) rather than badly reimpleenting them
> inside the bios.
>
   I think the BMP file with 24bpp is almost the raw image data that 
need just a little format adjusting in bios according to the video mode 
it found.
    Jpeg and LZMA decoder are the old small functions that sea-bios 
support, so I think user could use that format as an option.

> Paul


-- 
Best Regards

Wayne Xia
mail:xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com
tel:86-010-82450803

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-05  1:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-04 17:08 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5] showing a splash picture when start, seabios image for test xiaxia347work
2011-07-04 18:31 ` Paul Brook
2011-07-05  1:59   ` Wayne Xia [this message]
2011-07-05  2:00   ` Wayne Xia

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