[indiana-discuss] General Branding Experience for Indiana

[Matt Wilson]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 06:42:02PM +1300, Glynn Foster wrote:
>
> Yeah, good point. I'll include that now, though I think the
> engineering work to make that happen right now is not yet complete
> and certainly less trivial that many of the other changes.

FWIW, The boot splash implementation used by Linux XP is called
bootsplash.  The last time I evaluated bootsplash, it required a
patched Linux kernel.

A newer project called Splashy uses directfb.  I don't recall if
directfb is working with the Solaris framebuffer or not...

http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/

Cheers,

Matt
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