[Splashy-devel] /proc/cmdline (was: Re: Slow from initramfs)

[Tim Dijkstra]

On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:50:23 -0400
Luis <lemsx1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> ok i fixed trunk. now you can do: ./scripts/make-debian and a .deb
> packge will be waiting for you in /tmp
> 
> For some reason splashy never really started from initramfs... dunno
> what the reason for that is. it works fine nonetheless (using socket).
> Still doing more tests...

It isn't really slow for you?

The script in init-top/splashy still doesn't work for me. I have a few
comments about splashy looking for parameters in /proc/cmdline.

For one, I'm using lilo and do not have vga= on my cmdline. So I think
we have to remove that check from init-top/splashy.

Since recently splashy checks for splash* on the commandline. IMHO that
is unnecessary and problematic for a few reasons: If people now install
splashy, they can't expect it to work, they first have to add it to
lilo.conf or menu.list. I think that is a shame.
If I understand correctly, the reasons for splashy on the cmdline is to
be able to easily disable it. I propose to use the 'single' cmdline
parameter for that. It already roughly means 'boot as safely' as
possible, so it seems logical to disable splashy to.

grts Tim
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