Hoary Bootsplash

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 06:11 -0500, lao_V wrote:

> However, coming from a programming background, I don't believe
> implementing a splash screen takes that much of time or resources.
> Also, when standard things such as a splash screen are not implemented,
> it makes users think twice before going further.

Doing it properly (ie, without nasty kernel hacks) takes quite a lot of
time and resources. The aim is to provide a bootsplash mechanism that
runs entirely in userspace, and that isn't quite as easy as it sounds.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org