i just wrote a patch which allows the user to select a boot-logo at
compile time. The concept is easy: All the logos are saved as
include/linux/linux_logo_<logoname>.h and include/linux/linux_logo.h is
just a symlink to one of the possible logos. If one does not select any
logo the system takes linux_logo_default.h.
Now the cool thing: There is no central list of installed logos. The
scripts just look for include/linux/linux_logo_*.h and asks the user
in a submenu of 'Console Drivers' which one to take. The logo descriptions
are saved in the first line of the logo header file like this:
// The Description goes here
/* $Id: linux_logo.h,v 1.3 1998/07/06 15:51:16 jj Exp $
* include/linux/linux_logo.h: This is a linux logo
* to be displayed on boot.
*
* Copyright (C) 1996 Larry Ewing (lewing@isc.tamu.edu)
It's importand to use a // comment instead of a /* */ comment becouse the
script can only remove a leading '// ' from the description.
The patch has a size of 216 kB - so I don't attach it. Please download it
from <http://www.clifford.at/misc/logo-select.patch> instead.
- clifford
BTW: IMHO the ppm2logo patch from Bernd Paysan should go in the
official kernel tree.
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