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On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > At 1280 resolution, 24-bit color:
>
> That's not a suitable resolution for the BL3 target
> system.  I can't even do that resolution on any of
> my hardware.

That is what I happened to start with.

> > zgv is using 3.8% of RAM (192MB) = 7MB
> > xv 5.6% Xvesa 0.8% xinit 0.4% (no wm) = 13MB
>
> Why are you comparing zgv to xv?  The image viewer
> in BL3 is xli.

Because that is what the discussion was already about, and I was in 
BL2 with xv and zgv available.  I tried to compare xli to zgv but startx 
did not work when I was chrooted to BL3.


> > xv is barely usable in 16MB RAM
>
> I would think that xli running at 800x600x15 would
> be considerably better.

640 is also better.

I was pointing out that svgalib viewers took up much less RAM than xv and 
were therefore useful in low-RAM situations, also for 8-bit color.


> > Steven included seejpeg in BL1 along with libvga.
>
> I don't think so.  BL1 had a much smaller viewer
> (I don't recall its name at the moment).

Sorry, I must have added it myself.  I think yours only worked in 4-bit 
color but maybe that could be changed.

viewjpeg:  svgalib fileviewer
1.0 Beta1
1995
views jpeg gif bmp xpm xbm targa ppm
netpbm can convert other formats to ppm


xli - a buffer overflow exists ...

xli is a version of xloadimage.
It is supposed to view ppm png gif jfif/jepg targa xpm etc.
Does the BL3 version do all that or was it compiled smaller?

I will reboot and check out RAM usage for it.

> Cheers,
> Steven