From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261290AbVB0VEO (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:04:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261297AbVB0VEO (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:04:14 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:31439 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261290AbVB0VEI (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:04:08 -0500 Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:03:33 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Michal Januszewski Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Pavel Machek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4 Message-ID: <20050227210333.GA18820@kroah.com> References: <20050218165254.GA1359@elf.ucw.cz> <20050219011433.GA5954@spock.one.pl> <20050219230326.GB13135@kroah.com> <20050219232519.GC1372@elf.ucw.cz> <20050220132600.GA19700@spock.one.pl> <20050227165420.GD1441@elf.ucw.cz> <1109532700.15362.42.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050227195206.GA2202@spock.one.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050227195206.GA2202@spock.one.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 08:52:06PM +0100, Michal Januszewski wrote: > On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 08:31:39PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > well.. how much does it really need in kernel space? I mean, with all > > drivers as modules, and the "quiet" option, initramfs runs *really* > > fast. And that can just bang a bitmap to the framebuffer as first > > thing... (rhgb does it a bit later but that's a design choice in a > > feature vs early-boot tradeoff). > > Most of the code in fbsplash handles the so-called 'verbose' mode, > ie. displaying a pretty picture in the background of the consoles. > The 'silent' mode (progress bar and stuff) can be brought down to > a single call to a userspace helper which can paint the initial bitmap > or do whatever else it wants to do. In fact, this is how it works now. > However, fbsplash currently not only calls the helper, but also tracks > whether we're running in the 'silent' mode or in the 'verbose' mode. > I plan to remove that functionality, so we'll be left with the > following: > - silent is handled 100% by userspace Care to create a patch for the silent mode now? That should be simple enough to get into the kernel, and will be a good place to build off of for the rest of the things people want (verbose mode, etc.) thanks, greg k-h