Messages in this thread |  | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: Bootscreen | Date | Tue, 28 Jan 2003 21:59:25 +0000 (GMT) |
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> though i have recently subscribed to this list (OMG, 30 mails/hour!), I've > read the whole thread about this bootscreen thing... I see absolutely _no_ > reason why it should not be included in the kernel configuration, since there > are patches available already to make it work, and there are already soo many > useless options that adding another won't make a difference...
Many old options are also removed, though.
> I don't think adding the option to the kernel configuration would do any > harm...exept that the kernel source may get enlarged by (200 kb?), and the > kernel source gets enlarged every day anyway... 2.5 is HUGE compared to > 2.2...
That's partly because it's a development tree. There are big efforts to trim it down as much as possible.
I don't see any real advantage to putting in to the mainstream kernel something which can be achieved easily with a custom bootloader, and kernel options.
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