More low hanging fruit.
Steven Garrity
stevelist at silverorange.com
Mon Aug 27 17:25:57 UTC 2007
Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> It's not kernel rendered graphics, the kernel just sets the graphics
> mode and then a small userspace application can provide a simple
> progress bar. The userspace application will start very early in the
> boot process and replace RHGB, so we still avoid starting 2 X servers
> with this approach. The transition from the userspace application to
> the X server will be smooth, for example, a cross fade, and in
> particular, no mode switches.
Isn't the small userspace app you're describing here very similar to
Splashy [1]?
Cheers,
Steven Garrity (who admittedly knows very little about this topic)
[1] http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/
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