Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sun Feb 27 2005 - 14:34:02 EST



> 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.

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).



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