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From: Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-gfx/bootsplash
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:12:55
Message-Id: 9e0cf0bf0707061506h1b92bac0x6437cb85e0384630@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-gfx/bootsplash by Michal Januszewski
1 I think we should have user space splash... As fbsplash does not work
2 with all video cards and last time I checked the whole framebuffer in
3 kernel is not actively maintained.
4
5 Alon.
6
7 On 7/7/07, Michal Januszewski <spock@g.o> wrote:
8 > # Michał Januszewski <spock@g.o> (06 Jul 2007)
9 > # Unsupported, use media-gfx/splashutils instead.
10 > # Masked for removal in 30 days.
11 > media-gfx/bootsplash
12 >
13 > We don't provide any kernels patched with bootsplash anymore and
14 > media-gfx/bootsplash has no support for baselayout-2. media-gfx/splashutils
15 > together with the fbsplash patches provides the same functionality as
16 > bootsplash.
17 >
18 > Best regards.
19 > --
20 > Michal Januszewski JID: spock@×××××××××.org
21 > Gentoo Linux Developer http://people.gentoo.org/spock
22 >
23 >
24 >

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-gfx/bootsplash Michal Januszewski <spock@g.o>