Re: [Morphix-devel] bootsplash

[Paul <pa...@tu...>]

Hi Alex

On Thursday 27 December 2007 14:32, Alex de Landgraaf wrote:
> As mentioned on IRC, a bootsplash-enabled kernel has been added to the
> repository. You can find a base iso with this kernel in the autobuilds:

Although (my version of) bootsplash will apply cleanly to a 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 
kernel, we are faced with a major problem with 2.6.24 and beyond - The 
bootsplash patch will no longer get any official support, and major 
structural changes have been made to 2.6.24 (i386 and x86_64 has been merged 
in to a single architecture). Whilst it may be possible to maintain our own 
bootsplash patch for 2.6.24 and beyond, I feel it is time to look at using 
splashy.

 I had a quick look at it last night, and it works OK(ish) on an installed 
system. Running from boot on a LiveCD is going to require a little bit of 
editing to the linuxrc script in miniroot - Probably resulting in the need 
for a splashy.udeb.

I'll build a set of 2.6.23 kernel packages (what other *-modules-2.6.23 
packages do we need ?) tonight with bootsplash & unionfs patched in. Given 
time, also investigate the effort required to use bootsplash with 2.6.24. In 
the meantime, any thoughts on splashy ?


Regards, Paul.