[Splashy-devel] Splash during kernel startup

[Tim Dijkstra]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:51:24 -0800
"Eric Moret" <eric.moret at gmail.com> wrote:

> booting the kernel, it can either display a splash if your kernel has the
> fbsplash patch set or it can use initramfs to load a bootsplash for
> unpatched kernels.
> More details on gentoo's wiki:
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash#Making_An_initramfs_Image

I'll take a look.

> My point is that it would be less confusing to clearly state that splashy,
> even with 'early userspace' and initramfs, cannot display a splash screen as
> fast and early in the boot process as the fbsplash patch set. At least it
> would have save me quite some time :)

We just never realized somebody would care for that fraction of second
you see a black screen. I really would want to see some numbers for
that actually; what difference in time is for a 'early userspace'
system and a 'kernel patch' system. 
Also the 'kernel patch' system some things should happen fist, like
loading the fb driver for example and uncompressing the initramfs
(where the image probably is).

grts Tim