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From: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-gfx/bootsplash
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 01:06:07 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e0cf0bf0707061506h1b92bac0x6437cb85e0384630@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070706213812.GA21604@spock.one.pl>

I think we should have user space splash... As fbsplash does not work
with all video cards and last time I checked the whole framebuffer in
kernel is not actively maintained.

Alon.

On 7/7/07, Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org> wrote:
> # Michał Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org> (06 Jul 2007)
> # Unsupported, use media-gfx/splashutils instead.
> # Masked for removal in 30 days.
> media-gfx/bootsplash
>
> We don't provide any kernels patched with bootsplash anymore and
> media-gfx/bootsplash has no support for baselayout-2. media-gfx/splashutils
> together with the fbsplash patches provides the same functionality as
> bootsplash.
>
> Best regards.
> --
> Michal Januszewski                              JID: spock@im.gentoo.org
> Gentoo Linux Developer                    http://people.gentoo.org/spock
>
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-06 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-06 21:38 [gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-gfx/bootsplash Michal Januszewski
2007-07-06 22:06 ` Alon Bar-Lev [this message]
2007-07-06 22:27   ` Michal Januszewski
2007-07-06 22:59     ` Alon Bar-Lev
2007-07-07  8:31       ` Rémi Cardona
2007-07-07  8:38         ` Alon Bar-Lev
2007-07-07  8:58           ` Roy Marples
2007-07-07  9:05             ` Alon Bar-Lev
2007-07-07  9:25           ` Jakub Moc

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