Re: [gentoo-releng] Fwd: [gentoo-amd64] 2004.3 Testing

[John Davis]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 17:05 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> Well, tgall and plasmaroo are your resources for the udev stuff, since
> they are the only people I know of that know anything about it.  You
> will probably need to create a livecd/dev-manager: option for
> livecd-stage2 to take care of this.  There is now a --udev option to
> genkernel-3.0.2e+, but I'm not sure exactly how it works.  Right now, it
> looks like we use the "normal" genkernel line if we don't have
> livecd-dev-manager or if livecd/dev-manager is devfs, and we add a
> --udev if it is udev.
>

Hmm, ok, I will get with them. Thanks for the info ;)

> Catalyst supports bootsplash perfectly, but fbsplash has now replaced
> bootsplash in all 2.6.8+ Gentoo kernels.  This was done without so much
> as a note to any mailing list that I am a part of, so we're pretty much
> caught off-guard with it.  I have no clue as to the status of fbsplash
> and genkernel, so I don't even know if any support is there.  As it
> stands right now, if we can't get support for it, we're probably going
> to drop the splash images from the release, simply because the newer
> drivers in 2.6.8+ and the better SATA handling make it the preferred
> kernel choice for a single-kernel CD.  I am going to try to get with
> spock in the next day or two and change all the bootsplash-themes-* to
> splash-themes-* and have them use the "bootsplash" local USE to install
> the bootsplash themes, simply because we aren't going to see any more
> kernels with bootsplash added to them.
>

Hm. It would be nice if we could get fbsplash support for .3, but it
should not way hold up the release. Let's see what we can do with it.

Cheers,
-- 
John Davis
Gentoo Linux Developer
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen>

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