From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 16:48:37 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC 13/14] bootsplash: Add main documentation Message-Id: List-Id: References: <20171025124602.28292-1-mstaudt@suse.de> <20171025124602.28292-14-mstaudt@suse.de> <4f8dd371-e4bd-ae43-c562-2cde87d2c5a8@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Max Staudt , b.zolnierkie@samsung.com, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: tiwai@suse.com, oneukum@suse.com, msrb@suse.com, sndirsch@suse.com, michal@markovi.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/27/17 04:19, Max Staudt wrote: > On 10/25/2017 07:43 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> On 10/25/17 05:46, Max Staudt wrote: >>> Signed-off-by: Max Staudt >>> Reviewed-by: Oliver Neukum >>> --- >>> Documentation/fb/bootsplash.txt | 169 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>> 1 file changed, 169 insertions(+) >>> create mode 100644 Documentation/fb/bootsplash.txt >>> >>> diff --git a/Documentation/fb/bootsplash.txt b/Documentation/fb/bootsplash.txt >>> new file mode 100644 >>> index 000000000000..e2b7c956e6c2 >>> --- /dev/null >>> +++ b/Documentation/fb/bootsplash.txt >>> @@ -0,0 +1,169 @@ >>> + >>> +Bootsplash file format >>> +===========>>> + >>> +A file specified in the kernel configuration as CONFIG_BOOTSPLASH_FILE or >>> +specified on the command line as bootsplash.filename will be loaded and >>> +displayed as soon as fbcon is initialized. >> >> How do you create or edit such a file? Do you have a program especially for >> this? Hopefully not just a hex editor... > > Very good question. > > I definitely already have a primitive tool for this. However I'm unsure where to put it - it's a fairly low-level tool, so should I add it to the kernel tree? maybe in $kernel/tools/ > How about bootsplash_file.h - I guess I should I move it to include/uapi/linux/ so external tools can use it? That sounds correct. thanks. -- ~Randy