Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Add splash DRM client

On 10/27/25 11:28 AM, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 11:01:55AM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>> On 10/27/25 7:35 AM, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
>>>>>     - a very simple progress bar, which can be driven through sysfs;
>>>
>>> Once you have options to control these settings from user space, you
>>> should do it in user space entirely. As Maxime suggested, please improve
>>> plymouth for anything with animation.
>>>
>>>>>     - a static image (optional).
>>>
>>> Board vendors often provide an image, see /sys/firmware/acpi/bgrt/. This
>>> is a candidate for display, or the penguin or a custom image. Please
>>> make it configurable by Kconfig. Again, if you need policy and
>>> heuristics for deciding what to display, you better do this in user
>>> space.
>>
>> I'd actually argue that the static image from BGRT should be the preferred
>> priority.  This can make for a nice hand off to Plymouth.
>>
>> The (UEFI) BIOS already will show this image as soon as the GOP driver is
>> loaded.  Bootloaders like GRUB by default will avoid showing anything or
>> will overwrite with the exact same image in the same location.  This can let
>> the kernel do the same, and then the moment Plymouth takes over it could do
>> the same.
> 
> And BGRT isn't typically found on embedded systems at all, so I'm not
> sure it's a sensible default, let alone a priority. At most a possible

There are certainly embedded machines using UEFI and that have a BGRT.

How about "Sensible default the top of the priority list if it exists"

Just like Plymouth will start out with graphical splash and fallback to 
text if problems.