On Apr 14 at 10:13, Doug White spoke: > (Changing the subject since its not reflective of the tone of the > message. Apologies to the poster, but since this is a touchy subject I'm > going to make this a more technical discussion.)
The original subject was not technical but it was precise. > On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > > - or have an convenient flag in loaders.conf that allows to > > run Beastie menu but display some other decoration? > > I I have an idea and the patch in PR 74577 is about halfway there. I > suggest providing a script that forth-ifies a provided ASCII logo, and a If somebody provides the script, nice. But if it's just another suggestion that only delays the matter like the talks of the "new FreeBSD Logo" did then it's better to have a quick and dirty solution. > loader option to load a banner file from disk. This way, if, say, an OEM > wanted to put contact information in there, they could put in loader.conf: > > banner_enable="YES" > banner_file="/boot/oem.banner" > > and have that displayed instead of the beastie. > > The forthifier script would turn the file into a forth function definition > and then it can be included with standard routines in the loader. Then > your banner function would just call it. Of course this solution is more flexible and thus to favor. Just somebody do it... -Hanspeter _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
