[SerialICE] r80 - trunk/qemu-0.11.0

[Alexander Graf]

On 03.12.2009, at 18:42, Stefan Reinauer wrote:

> 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.

Oh? Do you have many color fadings?

Got a link to the image?


Alex