On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 04:19:18PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:45:42PM +1100, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 04:47:02PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Notice that the debian-kernel team has refused the bootsplash patch in its > > > current implementation, so there will be no bootsplash kernel in debian > > > anytime soon, and this is at best a post-sarge discussion. > > > > I fully understand the reasoning behind the kernel team's rejection of this > > patch, but it is kinda sad nonetheless... I marvelled at how someone's > > Fedora install booted up the other day, and was similiarly impressed with > > the Ubuntu Live CD. > > Since we're mentioning Ubuntu, the reason we rejected the bootsplash > patch for the Ubuntu kernel was that including it broke the part of the > installer that starts up the framebuffer in a way that we concluded was > impossible to repair within the design of bootsplash.
Yeah I get the impression that bootsplash as it currently stands is really poorly implemented, it's just got a feature that everyone really wants to have. Bring on bootsplash MkII. -- linux.conf.au 2005 - http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ - Birthplace of Tux April 18th to 23rd - http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ - LINUX Canberra, Australia - http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ - Get bitten! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
