Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 14:03:25 +0100
From: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: mls@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4
Message-ID: <20050301130325.GB14278@spock.one.pl>
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 06:40:15PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:

Hi,
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> > It doesn't really need vesafb for anything. Back in the days of 2.6.7=
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> > I used to release a version of bootsplash that had the dep. on vesafb=
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> > removed. It worked fine with at least some other fb drivers.
> >=20
> > You might also want to save yourself some work and try out an
> > alternative solution called fbsplash [1], which I designed after I got=
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> > tired of fixing bootsplash and which I actively maintain. Fbsplash=20
> > provides virtually the same functionality, and it has as much code as=
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> > possible moved into userspace (no more JPEG decoders in the kernel).
> mls suggested that there were some problems with matroxfb in the
> past. Have you seen something like that?

Possibly, but I can't recall what exactly was it about. All bugs in
fbsplash, that I have known of, have been fixed. If there are still some
problems with any fb drivers, please let me know.

Live long and prosper.
--=20
Michal 'Spock' Januszewski                        Gentoo Linux Developer
cell: +48504917690                         http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/
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