From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
To: chaosite@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [announce 7/7] fbsplash - documentation
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:39:08 -0800
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On Monday, March 7, 2005 9:00 pm, Matan Peled wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > Nothing about the init command seems really necessary. Why not just do
> > that stuff from an /sbin/init script?
>
> I'm not a kernel hacker by any definition, but I'm pretty sure its
> neccasery because we want it to be done before /sbin/init is ran, AKA hide
> the kernel messages :)

You can already hide the kernel messages by booting with the 'quiet' option.  
It works pretty well and it seems like this stuff should be in userspace 
anyway (console support in general that is).

Jesse
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