* Luc Verhaegen. libv@skynet.be [070318 03:42]:
I am not at all negative. I am just thinking out loud where stuff is done best.
Ah, you talked about a possible bootsplash _last_ week :)
Yes, that was about one or two days before I got v3 working with VGA in QEMU.
A boot splash screen lives by the time you have to look at it. So usually loading the kernel takes something from 1-5s. This is a good time to show a splash screen (before it is replaced by the Linux bootsplash, ie. www.bootsplash.org)
* Maybe we do want to switch the bootsplash on in the LinuxBIOS part?
* Maybe we want a seperate "stage" that does only that, between pci init and executing the bootloader?
* Maybe the bootloader should take care?
What do you think? I really don't know.
Well, i'll soon have rudimentary VGA modesetting + font loading working in a userspace app, that, when ported over, will hopefully get every VGA compatible device a working console quickly and easily. Well, when the hardware gets initialised far enough to allow that.
yes, we had x86emu for vgabios init running as a userspace application first, too. It is very simple to integrate it into LinuxBIOS later on, if you don't do crazy stuff, like using glibc internationalization ;)
Stefan