On Monday 04 July 2011 13:47:28 Mark Knecht did opine thusly: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Monday 04 July 2011 11:20:43 Mark Knecht did opine thusly: > >> > The way I've been doing this only required `vesa' or > >> > `uvesa' and some special kernel line stuff. None of the > >> > X related stuff is necessary. > >> > > >> > From covici's post... I think I may need to say uvesa > >> > where I've been saying vesa. > >> > > >> > I'm going to try that some time today. Its already > >> > enabled in > >> > my kernel > >> > >> I'm a little confused by his post also, but I've never run a > >> machine without Xorg so maybe it's a technical point. With a > >> framebuffer I believe you can get a boot screen like the > >> Install CD - a bunch of little Tux's across the top - so > >> you're doing graphics at that point but you're not running X? > >> > >> I was curious about this topic awhile back wondering if you > >> could run a Gentoo VM with only a framebuffer and get any > >> graphics at all, or is it just that the framebuffer is used > >> to give you more control over the console font/height/width > >> selection. > >> > >> (I've never run a framebuffer, if that's not obvious!) > > > > bootsplash does not run under X (well, on redhat it used to, but > > you really don't want to go there) - this should be obvious as > > you don't see the X start-up sequence happening at early boot > > time. > > > > There are many things boot splash could use for displaying > > images > > (fbcon etc etc) or even something of it's own invention. I'm not > > familiar enough with it to say how it really does it. > > > > > > -- > > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > so does bootsplash run using framebuffer or is it completely > different?
I have no idea actually. I could say it must run in a framebuffer-like abstraction but that is obvious and doesn't tell you anything you don't already know. Spock is the dev that knows most about these things, a good first research point would be to search his name and find related docs. Sorry I can't be more help - I have the concepts in my head but not the facts -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
