Right now splash screen is an attribute that must be defined on the
driver (e.g. machfb) to get it included.

it seems like this is better done if it is a "device", and, e.g:

    splash0 at machfb0, or even
    splash0 at wsdisplay0

or somesuch.

The benefit of this is that then I don't have to conditionally decide
whether

device    radeonfb: wsemuldisplaydev, videomode, rasops32, vcons, splash

or

device   radeonfb: wsemuldisplaydev, videomode, rasops32, vcons

should be used.  Additionally, some of the #ifdef code in things like my
radeonfb could get cleaned up, so that I just format a standard
structure and then pass it to config_found().

This could also move some of the special IOCTL handling out of the
drivers and have them get called in central splash device handling.

What do people think?  Am I insane?

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Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer
Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division,
General Dynamics C4 Systems
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