[SerialICE] r80 - trunk/qemu-0.11.0

[Alexander Graf]

Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> On 12/2/09 11:59 PM, joe at settoplinux.org wrote:
>   
>> This is awsome :-)
>> I can't wait to try it out.
>>
>> It seems to be a rather large (file size) banner though. Any way to scale it
>> down a bit?
>>
>> Thanks - Joe
>>   
>>     
> Not so easily...
>
> I made the graphics 320x200, so it's around 230KiB raw image data.
>
> Options:
> - use a compressed format.. This would mean adding a (i.e. JPG)
> decompressor to Qemu..
>    Either by requiring to link against libjpeg, or by adding a jpg
> decompressor in an extra file.
> - load the PPM file from the filesystem instead of including it in the
> source. Doesn't make it
>   smaller but then it's not possible to make a single diff against the
> Qemu source tree anymore.
> - paint something funky with a nice and small algorithm. Suggestions?
>   

Good old zlib should give you pretty good compression ratios.

Alex