Subject: Re: RFC: vesafb, splash screen, and rasops shadowfb patch
To: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/14/2006 11:51:23
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On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 11:40:46AM -0400, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 20:26 +0100, Jachym Holecek wrote:
> > While going with GIMP + .h is the easiest solution, something like
> > what mdsetimage(8) does would probably be better -- you could then
> > change splashscreen image w/o kernel recompile.
>=20
> I was under the impression that the md didn't attach until much later in
> the boot process.

I think the idea was that you'd have a tool that would inject the image=20
into an existing kernel. Not that you would have the image in the file=20
system that mdsetimage injected.

Take care,

Bill

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