Hi!
> As I announced a long time ago, I'm trying to get uswsusp to work with
> splashy. I've been working on getting splashy to expose a nice library
> interface which uswsusp can hook into. It is now more or less working,
> but before I produce a patch I have a few questions.
>
> The splash stucture as it is defined now, has a few functions of which
> don't quite understand the meaning:
>
> splash->switch_to
> splash->to_silent
> splash->to_verbose
>
> Am I correct to say that that to_silent/to_verbose are meant to make
> bootsplash drop in a mode where a user can provide some interaction?
Yes, we need password from user.
> resume.c:
> splash.to_verbose();
> encrypt_init(key, ivec, buffer, 0);
> splash.to_silent();
>
> If that's true, than I think that could be changed in suspend.c too:
>
> suspend.c
> chvt(vt_no);
> encrypt_init(key_data->key, key_data->ivec, handle.write_buffer, 1);
> splash.switch_to();
Would not this need one more virtual terminal?
> Then there's one more call of switch_to, namely just after freeze
>
> suspend.c
> error = freeze(snapshot_fd);
> .
> .
> splash->switch_to();
>
>
> which IIRC was to workaround a bug in bootsplash, right?
Not sure... I guess we want to be on kernel-controlled console, so
that graphics hardware is owned by kernel (not X).
Pavel
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