On Oct 16, 2003, at 3:22 pm, Nicholas Potter wrote:
I have seen in the forums a ton of info on installing bootsplash for a 2.4
kernel, but what about for the 2.6 kernels? I don't think they need to be
patched, but can I just install bootsplash and the rest? If anyone has
experience or can help that would be great.
See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21019
I get the impression it is still a work in progress, but there seems to be more recent updates than these, which explain how 2.6 is different.
------- Additional Comment #11 From SpanKY 2003-08-11 20:29 PST -------
We would like to see that happen. But before that can happen, some things have to be cleaned up. The framebuffer interface of kernel 2.5/2.6 is completely different from 2.4, which means that large parts of the bootsplash have to be rewritten. Implementing other bit depths than 16bit, and other picture loaders than the jpg one are things that come to the mind. Also the userspace utility needs nicer config files. There is currently no code that works with 2.5.
in other words i give up ;) if they cant handle it quickly i doubt i can
------- Additional Comment #12 From Martin Schlemmer 2003-08-26 13:28 PST -------
I have sorda 'ported' everything here except for the fbcon-splash16.c, which
is the 16bit fbcon driver. That is much more work as it will need a fair large
rewrite. Thus if anybody can get fbcon-splash16.c to work (check the sceleton
fbcon driver first, and compare), drop me a mail, I can send what I have ...
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