On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 08:52:06PM +0100, Michal Januszewski wrote: > On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 08:31:39PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > well.. how much does it really need in kernel space? I mean, with all > > drivers as modules, and the "quiet" option, initramfs runs *really* > > fast. And that can just bang a bitmap to the framebuffer as first > > thing... (rhgb does it a bit later but that's a design choice in a > > feature vs early-boot tradeoff). > > Most of the code in fbsplash handles the so-called 'verbose' mode, > ie. displaying a pretty picture in the background of the consoles. > The 'silent' mode (progress bar and stuff) can be brought down to > a single call to a userspace helper which can paint the initial bitmap > or do whatever else it wants to do. In fact, this is how it works now. > However, fbsplash currently not only calls the helper, but also tracks > whether we're running in the 'silent' mode or in the 'verbose' mode. > I plan to remove that functionality, so we'll be left with the > following: > - silent is handled 100% by userspace
Care to create a patch for the silent mode now? That should be simple enough to get into the kernel, and will be a good place to build off of for the rest of the things people want (verbose mode, etc.) 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/
