From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqftP-0003Eg-3p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:34:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j67NYEZr006082; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 23:34:14 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j67NWXN3007499 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 23:32:33 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dqfr9-0001A1-Kk for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:32:35 +0000 Received: (qmail 307 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2005 19:28:38 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 7 Jul 2005 19:28:38 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping bootsplash & friends from portage Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 19:33:16 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <42CDB690.3000905@gentoo.org> <200507071914.22107.vapier@gentoo.org> <42CDB987.4090001@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <42CDB987.4090001@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507071933.16030.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: af0834dc-f505-4806-b5de-cee4ae0a12a6 X-Archives-Hash: 8fc092fb8c0af38b29048a7d2320589a 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list