[SerialICE] r80 - trunk/qemu-0.11.0

[Stefan Reinauer]

On 12/3/09 5:49 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> Stefan Reinauer wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>   
Unfortunately, for the current picture it goes down from 230KiB to
180KiB, almost not worth the effort. The same image as jpg is 29KiB.


Stefan