Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:40:15 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4 |
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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 free... > > 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 might also want to save yourself some work and try out an > alternative solution called fbsplash [1], which I designed after I got > tired of fixing bootsplash and which I actively maintain. Fbsplash > provides virtually the same functionality, and it has as much code as > possible moved into userspace (no more JPEG decoders in the kernel).
mls suggested that there were some problems with matroxfb in the past. Have you seen something like that? Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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