[Splashy-devel] /proc/cmdline

Otavio Salvador otavio at debian.org
Tue Aug 22 17:19:16 UTC 2006


Pat Suwalski <pats at xandros.com> writes:

>> I think that's easy to deal building an interface between splashy and
>> the "drawing engine". That way we can build splashy using dfb as
>> backend, bogl or anything else with minimal effort.
>
> Well, then I believe that it might be prudent to look at how Ubuntu's
> splash works. I think Matthew Garrett was saying that they use some
> other framebuffer library to draw stuff. It might be interesting to
> see how hard it would be to "port" to another graphics library. As a
> first test, might even be possible to write a cairo backend (would be
> neat for testing, etc). I'm willing to help out with the vesa16
> backend.

Ÿes I agree with you but first we need to release 0.2.0 release
solving the initramfs problems so we can start to look at this all.

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