[REPOST] The Linux Progress Patch for 2.6 Kernels

[REPOST] The Linux Progress Patch for 2.6 Kernels

[Prasad]

hello everyone,
        For people who might be interested in having a
boot screen for linux or those interested in the linux
progress patch for the 2.6 kernels.  I have one that 
works fine with x86. I have not tested on the other 
platforms but it should work fine. It has been completely 
rewritten to suite the changed frame buffer code in 2.6 and
has been renamed to ELPP, the enhanced linux progress patch.


It can be downloaded from 
        http://students.iiit.net/~prasad_s/lpp/


The features include...
o Showing customizable number of messages at a time
o The success/failure/warning status of the scripts
   Just tryout the theme that comes by default!

The patch was made against 2.6.0-Test5 but should
perfectly work for the recent ones too.

Comments/Suggestions are welcome.

Prasad

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Re: [REPOST] The Linux Progress Patch for 2.6 Kernels

[Jan Dittmer]

Prasad wrote:
> The patch was made against 2.6.0-Test5 but should
> perfectly work for the recent ones too.

I need the following patch w/ test8-mm1 to get it compile. Otherwise it 
works quite well (i810fb). The screen is a bit distorted for the first 
few messages after elpp kicks in and the bottom line, where the messages 
appear, isn't cleared to the end. Also the background right of the eye 
is changing from black to red in the middle of the boot progress for no 
apparent reason (I've no supporting bootscripts).

Thanks,

Jan

--- drivers/video/console/elpp.c.org    2003-10-22 12:13:51.000000000 +0200
+++ drivers/video/console/elpp.c        2003-10-22 12:17:20.000000000 +0200
@@ -303,11 +303,11 @@
      size = pitch * font->height;
      size += buf_align;
      size &= ~buf_align;
-    dst = info->pixmap.addr + fb_get_buffer_offset(info, size);
+    dst = fb_get_buffer_offset(info, &info->pixmap, size);
      image.data = dst;
      src = font->data + (ch & charmask) * font->height * width;

-    move_buf_aligned(info, dst, src, pitch, width, image.height);
+    move_buf_aligned(info, &info->pixmap, dst, pitch, src, width, 
image.height);
      info->fbops->fb_imageblit(info, &image);
  }

Re: [REPOST] The Linux Progress Patch for 2.6 Kernels

[James Simmons]

> Prasad wrote:
> > The patch was made against 2.6.0-Test5 but should
> > perfectly work for the recent ones too.
> 
> I need the following patch w/ test8-mm1 to get it compile. Otherwise it 
> works quite well (i810fb). The screen is a bit distorted for the first 
> few messages after elpp kicks in and the bottom line, where the messages 
> appear, isn't cleared to the end. Also the background right of the eye 
> is changing from black to red in the middle of the boot progress for no 
> apparent reason (I've no supporting bootscripts).

???? What is elpp ?

Re: [REPOST] The Linux Progress Patch for 2.6 Kernels

[Jan Dittmer]

James Simmons wrote:
>>Prasad wrote:
>>
>>>The patch was made against 2.6.0-Test5 but should
>>>perfectly work for the recent ones too.
>>
>>I need the following patch w/ test8-mm1 to get it compile. Otherwise it 
>>works quite well (i810fb). The screen is a bit distorted for the first 
>>few messages after elpp kicks in and the bottom line, where the messages 
>>appear, isn't cleared to the end. Also the background right of the eye 
>>is changing from black to red in the middle of the boot progress for no 
>>apparent reason (I've no supporting bootscripts).
> 
> 
> ???? What is elpp ?

LPP for 2.6?! See [1] and Prasad's earlier post [2] about it.
i810fb is working great without it - thanks for your work :).

Jan

[1] http://students.iiit.net/~prasad_s/lpp/
[2]
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106681497425277&w=2

Re: [REPOST] The Linux Progress Patch for 2.6 Kernels

[Norberto Bensa]

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James Simmons wrote:
> ???? What is elpp ?

Prasad wrote:
> has been renamed to ELPP, the enhanced linux progress patch.
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

;-)


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