Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 May 1998 12:23:44 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mark H. Wood" <> | Subject | Re: Boot Logo Thoughts (LONG) |
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On 13 May 1998, david parsons wrote:
> In article <linux.kernel.19980513083620.11760.qmail@bigred.inka.de>, > Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de> wrote: > > >Unlike /proc, the splash screen stuff doesn't _need_ to be in the > >kernel. > > Unfortunately, it does, because nothing else is running from the point > where the loader run to the point where init is forked.
Just how much of it *must* be in the kernel, and how much could be provided externally (say, by a distribution vendor who wants to make things pretty for his office customers)?
-- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly. -- Oscar Wilde
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