Am Samstag 09 August 2008 18:11:11 schrieb Mike Montour: > Scott wrote: > > Booting up... Could it be any more confusing?? First the OM screen, > > then the standard linux text scrolling, then the boots, then blank, then > > the boots again, then some more text, then blank again??? WTF over? > > Can't we have just one damn boot screen? > > The first one ("OM screen") lives in a dedicated flash partition and is > loaded by u-boot. It could be updated by the opkg that is responsible > for the other splash screen, in the same way that the kernel opkg will > re-flash the kernel partition when it is updated. This might be a good > project for one of the community members (hint, hint). > > It should be possible to hide the linux text scrolling - OpenSuSE (for > example) does it, but I don't know the details. I personally like to see > the penguin and the Linux messages. > > AFAIK the remaining issues are because the splash-screen starts out by > using the raw framebuffer, and then later X11 is started. I don't know > what room for improvement there is in this area - maybe someone else can > comment.
Lots of room for improvement. We should be able to get a consistent splash screen from U-Boot into X. -- :M: _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community