Is there still work being done on that one? Just wondering. If so, how is it supposed to work? I hope it's not the current splashimage thing in GRUB, which is rather silly (640x480x16 :/ ).
What I'd like to see would be a solution that'd allow to configure a VESA mode (preferably 24bit), specify a picture file (I guess in an uncompressed format, for complexity reasons) to copy into the framebuffer, and then define an area where the progress bar rectangle would be drawn in (that is, if there's support to track SMF start-up completion). Even better would be starting the X server as early as possible, as Fedora seems to be doing (tried it first time last weekend), but for instance possible dependencies on kernel mode drivers would prevent that (e.g. nvidia). Regards, -mg -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
