Re: AW: [Etherboot-developers] Splashimage / Bootlogo

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ke...@us... (Ken Yap) writes:

> >Since tftp'ing is relatively slow and most boot/splashscreens are not 
> >very complex graphics, i'd like to append, that boot/splashcreen-images
> >should/could be compressed. 
> 
> I should also add that I don't intend to develop this version of the
> external menu program very far. I will just make it resemble the
> internal menuing as far as possible and then any improvements are up to
> you hackers. My goal here is to remove crud from Etherboot.
> 
> The external program chaining mechanism is general and has been in
> Etherboot for over a year.  It's documented in the developers guide and
> there are comments in the sample program.  So you could start from
> scratch and create any fancy program you like. Lots of possibilities,
> use the mouse for input, animation, fractals, etc. etc.

Sounds sane.  One thing I would like to do in conjunction with this
is to figure out what we need to do to relocate etherboot.  Allowing
arbitrary to be down loaded.  If you don't have to support callbacks
this is trivial, with callbacks this becomes a more interesting
challenge.

Mostly I think etherboot can be moved to the highest available address
below 4G, with just a touch of care.  The challenges are keeping the
overhead down, and still allowing dos BIOS calls.  Because that needs
a small chunk below 1MB.

Eric