[SerialICE] r80 - trunk/qemu-0.11.0

[joe at settoplinux.org]

On December 3, 2009 at 4:24 PM Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> 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?
> 
Ah, 230k isn't so bad and serialice is small enough so there is plenty of space
left over. The only time it may be a problem is if you only have a 128k chip. I
was just looking at the 1.4mb attachment to r80 but I guess that was the raw hex
data.

Thanks - Joe