Re: Boot Logo Selection

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:47:30 +0200 (CEST)


On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Clifford Wolf wrote:
> i just wrote a patch which allows the user to select a boot-logo at
> compile time. The concept is easy: All the logos are saved as
> include/linux/linux_logo_<logoname>.h and include/linux/linux_logo.h is
> just a symlink to one of the possible logos. If one does not select any
> logo the system takes linux_logo_default.h.
>
> Now the cool thing: There is no central list of installed logos. The
> scripts just look for include/linux/linux_logo_*.h and asks the user
> in a submenu of 'Console Drivers' which one to take. The logo descriptions
> are saved in the first line of the logo header file like this:

Nice!

> BTW: IMHO the ppm2logo patch from Bernd Paysan should go in the
> official kernel tree.

Or use the GIMP plugin from Jens Ch. Restemeier
<jenschrr@post.uni-bielefeld.de> to save images as logo files.

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium

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