From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:02:31 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Big Files? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:08:02 EST." <1193692082.1462.28.camel@ld0161-tx32> Message-ID: <20071029220231.317B12476F@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.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 -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the former Galactic Empire, life was wild, rich and largely tax free. - Douglas Adams, _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_