[U-Boot-Users] Big Files?

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Jon,

in message <1193692082.1462.28.camel@ld0161-tx32> you wrote:
> 
> I have a display driver that I would like to add
> to the 8610HPCD board port.  The driver itself is
> pretty small (about 30K of source), but there is
> a logo bitmap file that can be used to display on
> the display as well.  That file alone is about 160K
> even though it is a smallish bitmap (340 x 128 x 4bpp).

340x128x4 = 174,080 bit = 21,760 byte = 21.25 KiB. Where is the other
138 KiB of data coming from?

> How would you like to handle this situation?

Like any other patch...

[I have to admit that I am not really happy to have  such  big  image
data  in  the  public repo, but I probably have to keep my mouth shut
because I did not notice when Stefan Roese  sneaked  in  much  bigger
bitmap file :-( ]

> I could post the basic driver, code, of course.
> Should I do that, and throw it all into the -mpc86xx
> custodian tree along with the bitmap file?  Or would
> you prefer to see a URL to some HTTP: site with it?
> Or an encoded gzip file on list?

Submit the code as regular patch and the bit map file as part 2,
gzipped.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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