Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping bootsplash & friends from portage

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Thursday 07 July 2005 07:23 pm, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > does fbsplash work for all the same kernels bootsplash does ?  if so i
> > dont see why punting it would be a problem ...
>
> bootsplash works up to (and including) 2.6.8.1.
>
> The earliest patches in the fbsplash archive are against 2.6.8.1.
> So, we would be dropping support for those earlier kernels, but we don't
> really support kernels of such age anyway.

i was wondering more about whether 2.4 is supported ?

> It's also worth mentioning that fbsplash is included in gentoo-sources.

you told us gentoo-sources was purged of all rice !  /me goes back to 
love-sources
-mike
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