Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-03-07 Thread Michal Januszewski
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 01:03:33PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Care to create a patch for the silent mode now? That should be simple > enough to get into the kernel, and will be a good place to build off of > for the rest of the things people want (verbose mode, etc.) I've just sent the whole thing

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-03-01 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Hmm, maybe I should change the vesafb test in the bootsplash code > to test if fb_imageblit == cfb_imageblit. This would make Pavel > very happy, I guess ;-) Yes, I like that one. Also it is likely going to be cleaner than vesafb_ops hack.

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-03-01 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 02:03:25PM +0100, Michal Januszewski wrote: > Possibly, but I can't recall what exactly was it about. All bugs in > fbsplash, that I have known of, have been fixed. If there are still some > problems with any fb drivers, please let me know. Well, you'll run into trouble wit

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-03-01 Thread Michal Januszewski
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 08:41:23PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi, > [aj added to the list]. > > Andreas, who is the person to talk about this? I like redhat's > solution the best. Pass "quiet", perhaps replace penguin with some big > picture including penguin and chameleon or something, and do t

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-03-01 Thread Michal Januszewski
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 06:40:15PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi, > > It doesn't really need vesafb for anything. Back in the days of 2.6.7 > > I used to release a version of bootsplash that had the dep. on vesafb > > removed. It worked fine with at least some other fb drivers. > > > > You mi

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-03-01 Thread Michal Januszewski
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 01:03:33PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Care to create a patch for the silent mode now? That should be simple > enough to get into the kernel, and will be a good place to build off of > for the rest of the things people want (verbose mode, etc.) Sure, I'll post a patch as soon

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-28 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Just in case someone is interested, this is bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4, > > taken from suse kernel. I'll probably try to modify it to work with > > radeonfb. > > > > Any ideas why bootsplash needs to hack into vesafb? It only uses > > vesafb_ops

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-27 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 08:52:06PM +0100, Michal Januszewski wrote: > On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 08:31:39PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > well.. how much does it really need in kernel space? I mean, with all > > drivers as modules, and the "quiet" option, initramfs runs *really* > > fast. And

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-27 Thread Michal Januszewski
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 08:31:39PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > well.. how much does it really need in kernel space? I mean, with all > drivers as modules, and the "quiet" option, initramfs runs *really* > fast. And that can just bang a bitmap to the framebuffer as first > thing... (rhgb does

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Well, I like rhgb the best (because it is 100% userspace and I do not > > have to deal with it :-), but it seems like bootsplash should be > > deprecated in favor of fbsplash. > > well.. how much does it really need in kernel space? I mean, with all > drivers as modules, and the "quiet" o

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-27 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> Well, I like rhgb the best (because it is 100% userspace and I do not > have to deal with it :-), but it seems like bootsplash should be > deprecated in favor of fbsplash. well.. how much does it really need in kernel space? I mean, with all drivers as modules, and the "quiet" option, initramfs

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Yes, I agree, almost anything is more sane than code I posted :-(. My > > only requirement is that it works with radeonfb and similar low-level > > drivers (so that I can get suspend-to-ram to work) and that it gets > > past our branding people... > > I don't know about the branding pe

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-23 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 02:15:05PM +0100, Michal Januszewski wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 03:03:26PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > Pavel, I agree with Michal, take a look at this version of the code > > instead of the version that you posted. It's a _whole_ lot more sane, > > and possibly even

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-20 Thread Marcos D. Marado Torres
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Michal Januszewski wrote: On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 12:25:19AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: How many distros do use some variant of bootsplash? SuSE does, from above url I guess gentoo does, too... Does RedHat do something similar? [Or

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-20 Thread Michal Januszewski
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 12:25:19AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi, > Yes, I agree, almost anything is more sane than code I posted :-(. My > only requirement is that it works with radeonfb and similar low-level > drivers (so that I can get suspend-to-ram to work) and that it gets > past our brand

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-20 Thread Michal Januszewski
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 03:03:26PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Pavel, I agree with Michal, take a look at this version of the code > instead of the version that you posted. It's a _whole_ lot more sane, > and possibly even mergable. > > Michal, any thoughts on submitting it for inclusion? It seems

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-20 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> How many distros do use some variant of bootsplash? SuSE does, from > above url I guess gentoo does, too... Does Red Hat do something > similar? [Or do they just set log-level to very high giving them clean > look?] What about Debian? Red Hat/Fedora uses "quiet" boot option, plus a userspace ea

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-19 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > Just in case someone is interested, this is bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4, > > > taken from suse kernel. I'll probably try to modify it to work with > > > radeonfb. > > > > > > Any ideas why bootsplash needs to hack into vesafb? It only

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-19 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 02:14:34AM +0100, Michal Januszewski wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 05:52:54PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi, > > > Just in case someone is interested, this is bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4, > > taken from suse kernel. I'll probably

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-18 Thread Michal Januszewski
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 05:52:54PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi, > Just in case someone is interested, this is bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4, > taken from suse kernel. I'll probably try to modify it to work with > radeonfb. > > Any ideas why bootsplash needs to hack into

Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-18 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Just in case someone is interested, this is bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4, taken from suse kernel. I'll probably try to modify it to work with radeonfb. Any ideas why bootsplash needs to hack into vesafb? It only uses vesafb_ops to test against them before some kind of