From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@www.infradead.org>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:38:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050309113842.GB30119@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0503081945510.15646@pentafluge.infradead.org>
Hi!
> > Fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash - is a feature that allows displaying
> > images in the background of consoles that use fbcon. The project is
> > partially descended from bootsplash.
>
> What are you trying to do exactly? I really don't see the point of this
> patch.
At least some Debians, Gentoo and SUSE each use some variant of this
eye candy; each one with different bugs. It would be nice to at least
do the splash right (so that it does not require vesafb and therefore
allows working with suspend-to-RAM).
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-09 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-08 1:57 [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash Michal Januszewski
2005-03-08 19:46 ` James Simmons
2005-03-08 20:52 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-08 22:27 ` James Simmons
2005-03-09 11:38 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-03-09 22:47 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2005-03-09 5:01 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-03-09 6:02 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-09 9:34 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-03-09 18:16 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Alan Cox
2005-03-09 20:33 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-03-09 20:45 ` James Simmons
2005-03-09 22:40 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Alan Cox
2005-03-10 9:12 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-03-10 14:54 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-11 18:03 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " James Simmons
2005-03-11 18:13 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-15 18:58 ` James Simmons
2005-03-15 19:03 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-15 19:22 ` James Simmons
2005-03-15 20:39 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Lee Revell
2005-03-13 18:20 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-13 18:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-03-13 19:24 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-13 19:34 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Elladan
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