From: Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] psplash fixes
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:31:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EF0AA68.7070501@balister.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3289178.cJ7bor4PPM@helios>
On 12/19/2011 01:57 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Monday 19 December 2011 19:48:48 Koen Kooi wrote:
>> I will say again: I absolutely HATE that virtual-runtime nonsense. If you
>> need to change a task, change the task, don't introduce things that make it
>> non deterministic. Guess what happens when you change a virtual-runtime
>> *after* you have built the task already.
>
> This is the problem I'm trying to avoid. Perhaps it wasn't clear, but what I
> meant was change things so we do not bring in psplash via a task anymore -
> instead use the value of VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_splash within core-image.bbclass,
> controlled via an IMAGE_FEATURE.
>
>>> Would update-alternatives be needed at all in
>>> that case?
>>
>> It would if you want to change it after booting :)
>
> What's the use case for changing the splash image after booting?
I can see people taking an existing image, adding a few packages to
customize it for their application, and changing the splash image to a
product specific one.
Philip
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-20 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-19 17:43 [PATCH 0/2] psplash fixes Paul Eggleton
2011-12-19 17:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] psplash: use OpenEmbedded logo Paul Eggleton
2011-12-20 9:55 ` Paul Menzel
2011-12-19 17:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] scripts/contrib: add a script to create a psplash image header Paul Eggleton
2011-12-19 17:50 ` [PATCH 0/2] psplash fixes Koen Kooi
2011-12-19 18:22 ` Paul Eggleton
2011-12-19 18:27 ` Koen Kooi
2011-12-19 18:32 ` Paul Eggleton
2011-12-19 18:48 ` Koen Kooi
2011-12-19 18:57 ` Paul Eggleton
2011-12-19 19:02 ` Koen Kooi
2011-12-19 19:12 ` Paul Eggleton
2011-12-21 15:16 ` Paul Eggleton
2011-12-20 15:31 ` Philip Balister [this message]
2011-12-21 15:15 ` Paul Eggleton
2011-12-23 0:00 ` Philip Balister
2011-12-20 7:33 ` Martin Jansa
2011-12-21 15:40 ` Richard Purdie
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