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 1DqfkB-0007h6-1d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:25:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j67NOIJ4012309; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 23:24:18 GMT Received: from mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.48]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j67NLDeb014469 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 23:21:13 GMT Received: from aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050707232116.DDLV889.mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 00:21:16 +0100 Received: from zog.reactivated.net ([81.99.81.161]) by aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050707232116.GILB14310.aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@zog.reactivated.net> for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 00:21:16 +0100 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (dsd [192.168.0.2]) by zog.reactivated.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ACBE7B7799 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 00:44:20 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <42CDB987.4090001@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:23:51 +0100 From: Daniel Drake User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050403) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping bootsplash & friends from portage References: <42CDB690.3000905@gentoo.org> <200507071914.22107.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200507071914.22107.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: bfecadfa-5a5c-44e9-897b-5d94f97020b6 X-Archives-Hash: 3a164ea80fef12ef3652df9cf1a9babb 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. It's also worth mentioning that fbsplash is included in gentoo-sources. Daniel -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list