Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

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