On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 02:14:34AM +0100, Michal Januszewski wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 05:52:54PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi, > > > Just in case someone is interested, this is bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4, > > taken from suse kernel. I'll probably try to modify it to work with > > radeonfb. > > > > Any ideas why bootsplash needs to hack into vesafb? It only uses > > vesafb_ops to test against them before some kind of free... > > It doesn't really need vesafb for anything. Back in the days of 2.6.7 > I used to release a version of bootsplash that had the dep. on vesafb > removed. It worked fine with at least some other fb drivers. > > You might also want to save yourself some work and try out an > alternative solution called fbsplash [1], which I designed after I got > tired of fixing bootsplash and which I actively maintain. Fbsplash > provides virtually the same functionality, and it has as much code as > possible moved into userspace (no more JPEG decoders in the kernel). > > [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/gensplash/current/
Pavel, I agree with Michal, take a look at this version of the code instead of the version that you posted. It's a _whole_ lot more sane, and possibly even mergable. Michal, any thoughts on submitting it for inclusion? It seems pretty stable now. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
