Re: bootsplash / EPP

++ 19/01/05 - Andreas V. Meier:
> Hi,
> 
> some of you might have noticed avm/bootsplash a while ago. I haven't
> sent updates for some time, and I bet the patches don't apply any more.
> For the bootsplash project seems deceased, I found
> http://www.bootsplash.de/ which seems to continue the effort of porting
> the patches to future kernel releases.
> 
> Now on the recent kernel-traffic I found a pointer to the EPP project
> http://elpp.foofighter.de/ . This project apparently does the same.
> 
> My confession is that I never saw the bootsplash thing working, although
> it always built fine. Maybe I have not the required hardware to use it,
> or I just have not used the correct framebuffer driver. So my question
> is: has it ever worked for anybody?
> And further, as I want to have at least one of it, are there votes
> pro/con one of both, or shall I try to include both?
> 
> Ciao
> 
> Andreas

I have personnally used bootsplash for months
http://www.mdstud.chalmers.se/~doidy/rock/rock-bootsplash.png is a good proof
of that :)

I currenlty use it with my 2.6.9 kernel, patched with the software suspend 2
patch which includes bootsplash
so a solution would be to patch the kernel with both software suspend and 
bootsplash at the same time
I don't know the state of the other implementations and never tried either.
I know there is also an implementation done by the gentoo guys.

 /mathieu