From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261420AbVB0Qy5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:54:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261430AbVB0Qy5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:54:57 -0500 Received: from gprs215-59.eurotel.cz ([160.218.215.59]:5521 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261420AbVB0Qyc (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:54:32 -0500 Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:54:20 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Michal Januszewski Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4 Message-ID: <20050227165420.GD1441@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20050218165254.GA1359@elf.ucw.cz> <20050219011433.GA5954@spock.one.pl> <20050219230326.GB13135@kroah.com> <20050219232519.GC1372@elf.ucw.cz> <20050220132600.GA19700@spock.one.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050220132600.GA19700@spock.one.pl> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > Yes, I agree, almost anything is more sane than code I posted :-(. My > > only requirement is that it works with radeonfb and similar low-level > > drivers (so that I can get suspend-to-ram to work) and that it gets > > past our branding people... > > I don't know about the branding people, but suspend-to-ram and radeonfb > shouldn't be a problem for fbsplash :) > > > How many distros do use some variant of bootsplash? SuSE does, from > > above url I guess gentoo does, too... Does RedHat do something > > similar? [Or do they just set log-level to very high giving them clean > > look?] What about Debian? > > As far as I know: SuSE uses bootsplash, Gentoo and PLD use fbsplash, > RedHat uses rhgb (100% userspace solution, based on xvesa, doesn't > provide graphical backgrounds on vt's - for that a kernel patch like > bootsplash or fbsplash is necessary). I don't know about Debian - they > probably have some (possibly unofficial) support for both bootsplash > and fbsplash. Well, I like rhgb the best (because it is 100% userspace and I do not have to deal with it :-), but it seems like bootsplash should be deprecated in favor of fbsplash. Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl!