Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 18 Jun 1996 19:44:29 -0400 | From | The SethMeister <> | Subject | Re: Boot messages (Was: Re: Ideas for v2.1) |
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WOOPS didnt finish the message - darn that Eudora! Heres the full one (in its full glory ;)): > >> >>I thought about something like that, but either the rotation or >>animation code would have to be in the kernel or it wouldn't be able >>to do anything until the kernel starts init. I don't like the idea >>of a lot of special purpose graphics code in the kernel. >> > > > How bout this (thisis prob. a bad idea, but so what, let's hear YOU contribute one ;)) - Figure out the procedure that is called the MOST during bootup and add a little function to it, like cycle_bootup_line_at_bottom_of_screen(), then, when the kernel is done booting, nullify this procedure call in that function :) > >eg: > JMP $2 >$2: > cycle...screen() >$1: > >. >. >. Then after its done booting, say the address of the JMP instruction is 0xC0000002:
mov cs:0xC0000002, <OPCODE FOR "JMP $1">
Yea I know this looks dumb and blah blah but hey :) > > The ShagSter
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