Re: [Pcbsd-developer] animated bootup screen

[Kris M. - PC-B. S. <kr...@pc...>]

This is a good idea, if somebody knows how to do this, feel free and 
commit it to FreeBSD :)


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Kris Moore
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Mark Anthony Gutierrez wrote:
> I propose we work on an animated bootup screen.  Instead of having a 
> static image loaded by the kernel, that we write the code to have the 
> image, and maybe an overlayed screen with animations that display what's 
> actually going on, and also maybe saying "press F1 for verbose mode" and 
> it'll display the kernel text overlayed on the bootup screen.
> 
> I've been looking at the kernel code, check out /usr/src/sys/dev/fb/
> 
> or if you're interested in looking at the bootup code check out 
> /usr/src/sys/boot/i386
> 
> -Mark
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