Re: [PATCH] swsusp bootsplash support

[Erik Rigtorp]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:44:00PM +0200, Diego Calleja García wrote:
> Is really neccesary to use a X server? Why not just modify the init scripts to
> use fbi to show a image? Is not that the kernel takes a lot of time to boot and
> run init - even windows XP shows an ascii bar while it loads their kernel,
So you know the internals of the NT kernel? That bar is probably just the
bootloader loading the kernel from disk :).

> that period of time doesn't takes too much time and it doesn't annoy anyone.
> You could switch off the printk output too, so the users doesn't see any
> kernel message at all while init runs and the scripts puts the image in the
> framebuffer console.
That is the "clean" approach, but what I wanted was something nice to look
at while booting or suspending my laptop. Whether it be a retro ascii thingy
or a fancy graphical thingy doesn't really matter. 
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