Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

[Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 08:41:23PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:

Hi,

> [aj added to the list].
> 
> Andreas, who is the person to talk about this? I like redhat's
> solution the best. Pass "quiet", perhaps replace penguin with some big
> picture including penguin and chameleon or something, and do the
> interesting work in userspace...
> 
> That's the best solution, technically... Perhaps it is even acceptable
> politically?

And that's exactly how it will be done in fbsplash, as soon as I move
the rest of the 'silent'-handling code to the userspace. Fbsplash will 
call a userspace helper as soon as fbcon is initialized. The helper can 
be used put the console into KD_GRAPHICS mode and paint a full-screen 
picture to cover any text messages. Progress bars and other fancy stuff 
will be handled after init, by 100% userspace code (it's done that way 
even with the current version of fbsplash).

Live long and prosper.
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