[U-Boot-Users] Creating a valid bmp file

[Jerry Van Baren <gerald.vanbaren@ge.com>]

Roger Williamson wrote:
> Hello again Detlev,
> 
>       A small question before I get to the rest of my response: how much
> has the bmp handling changed over the past 2 years?
> 
> Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de> wrote on 10/25/2007 07:38:13 PM:
> 
>> Hi Roger,

[snip]

>> I cannot say what you are missing, but you probably can check for
>> yourself.  The first check the bitmap code does is to see whether it
>> can find 'B' and 'M' as the first two bytes of the image.  That's the
>> magic number for bmp files[1].
> 
>       All of the files I've tried do have the tel-tale "BM" as the first
> two characters, I'm glad that I'm not totally off with respect to the files
> that I've tried to load.
> 
>> Given the error message you get, you probably do not use the "Windows
>> Bitmap (BMP)" file format.  Also be aware that currently only 1 or 8
>> bit per pixel formats are supported.
> 
>       Hmm... Do you or any of the U-booters know any programs for Windows,
> or that'll run under cygwin that will produce OS independed bitmaps?

You mean like Microsoft Paint?  See Detlev's hint (above) about saving 
in 1 bit per pixel (monochrome) or 8 bits per pixel (256 color) formats.

>> Cheers
>>   Detlev
>>
>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_bitmap
> 
> You've been quite helpful so far.
> 
> Thank you,
> Roger.
> 
> 
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