Subject: Re: RFC: vesafb, splash screen, and rasops shadowfb patch
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
From: David P. Reese, Jr. <daver@siginfo.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/15/2006 13:44:52
On Feb 15, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2006, at 11:31 AM, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>>> Yes, I understand that only the first item is analogous to what you 
>>> have provided so far :-)  That said, I think an animated sprite of 
>>> some sort during the kernel part would be better than a progress 
>>> bar... perhaps something like (use your imagination here ;-)
>>
>> How do you like this? :
>>
>>  http://www.invisible.ca/~jmcneill/netbsd/vesa/splashboot3.mpg
>
> I'd like it a lot better if I knew what I could play it with :-)  
> (Quicktime doesn't understand the format of that file, nor does 
> MPlayer).

VLC is perfectly happy playing this file.

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