USplash's status?

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 07:40:46AM +1100, Shimon wrote:
> Isn't the real reason because ubuntu's policy is not to take any
> patches on the kernel which are not accepted upstream (fedora also has
> this policy thats why they made rhgb... but thats out of the question
> as it takes about 20 seconds till it starts as it loads x....) and to
> my memory bootsplash is rejected as it doesn't work on many gfx
> cards....

We reverted bootsplash because it broke the installer. I uploaded the
reversion at the Oxford conference while attempting to prepare a Sounder
release, so I should know. We then discussed it at some length at Oxford
and decided on usplash as the best option.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]