From: Arnd B. <ar...@ar...> - 2007-01-31 01:19:20
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On Tuesday 30 January 2007 19:00, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > The Cell Broadband Engine contains a 64-bit PowerPC core with 2 hardware > threads (called PPEs) and 8 Synergistic Processing Engines (called SPEs). > When booting Linux, 2 penguins logos are shown on the graphical console. > > To emphasize the existence of the SPEs (which can be used under Linux), we > added a second row of (smaller) helper Penguin logos, one for each SPE. I love the small penguins, they're cute! You should probably run this patch set through linux-kernel@vger though, so see if there are people around there objecting to the idea. The patches all look good from a technical point, except for the fact that the existing fb boot logo is a gross hack to start with, but I don't think anyone is arguing for getting rid of that. Arnd <>< |