[U-Boot] [PATCH v3] Add 16bpp BMP support

Haavard Skinnemoen haavard.skinnemoen at atmel.com
Mon Feb 2 09:01:45 CET 2009


Mark Jackson wrote:
> > We do NOT want to do everything that is possible, but only what is
> > reasonable.  
> 
> Exactly ... otherwise where do you stop ?  JPG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, etc ? 
> We're *only* meant to be showing a simply boot up image (not view lots 
> of different sized photos or movies !!), in a very controlled 
> environment (i.e. no "user" options ... just what the designers want / 
> require).

Why not do it even simpler? Drop BMP and generate an image matching the
native format of the LCD controller at compile time :-)

Haavard


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