Subject: Re: RFC: vesafb, splash screen, and rasops shadowfb patch
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.mff.cuni.cz>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/14/2006 21:03:57
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 11:55:05AM -0400, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> I would be happy with __initdata functionality similar to that of Linux
> (as Jachym mentioned, this is a huge win for more than just the splash
> image). Another (MD, unfortunately) option would be for boot2 to read an
> image from disk, load it into memory, and pass the physical address to
> the kernel at startup.
That's what Multiboot was designed for :-)
Pavel