Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1

[Adrian Cox]

Mike Galbraith wrote:
> I give users more credit in the curiosity/observation department.  In
> my experience, when a user fires up his/her box, independent of OS,
> they watch it pretty closely.  This behavior begins roughly the first
> time they lose a chunk of work ;-)

I want to use this for embedded systems. For example, last weekend I was
on a bus where the advertising screen at the front went through a
complete (uncustomised) Windows 2000 boot. I want to do better than
that, and build an application specific splash screen early into the
boot process, with the detailed messages coming out through the serial
port.

- Adrian Cox
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/