Re: Is the boot logo politically correct?

Alex Buell (alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 27 Jul 1998 08:23:08 -0400 (EWT)


On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Perry Harrington wrote:

> > I'll see if I can have a word with Geert for the specs of the logo and
> > whether we can have lilo pass an option to the kernel to load the logo of
> > choice. That should keep the individualists happy. Hell, I'll even create
> > my own drug abusing logos :o)
>
> Oh, for cryin' out loud, somebody make it a /proc entry, or a real dev device.
> you write a pbm to the device and it replaces the logo!

Not possible, the /proc entry or the dev devices are not known before boot
time. I am currently discussing with Geert a different scheme, more
details when I have a clearer idea of what I need to do.

Cheers,
Alex

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