> I would like to hear your opinions about the patchset below (updated version
> compared to yesterday, lkml added to the CC list).
>
> 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 by
> the standard frame buffer console logo code.
>
> 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 attached a PNG version of the helper penguin logo for reference.
>
> Summaries:
> [PATCH 1/7] fbdev: Avoid vertical overflow when making space for the logo
> [PATCH 2/7] fbdev: fb_do_show_logo() updates
> [PATCH 3/7] fbdev: extract fb_show_logo_line()
> [PATCH 4/7] fbdev: move logo externs to header file
> [PATCH 5/7] fbdev: Add fb_append_extra_logo()
> [PATCH 6/7] fbdev: SPE helper penguin logo
> [PATCH 7/7] Cell: Draw SPE helper penguin logos
>
> Thanks for your comments!
Now that their are patches for the logo I would like to see a few more
improvements that I haven't gotten too. I really like to see the logo
drawn outside of fbcon. This way for embedded platforms without fbcon we
could have the logo to know if the graphics device worked.
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