pretty boot plymouth security

[pgf at laptop.org]

peter wrote:
 > >  > >   > Q1 What is the status of "pretty boot" or plymouth in rawhide on
 > >  > >   > XO? Is that supposed to work? It did work when booting F10 off SD
 > >  > >   > card a while back.
 > >  > >
 > >  > > It does work when booting from SD or USB, and I'm not sure why it
 > >  > > doesn't work booting from NAND.  Does anyone have an idea?
 > >  >
 > >  > I believe there needs to be a vga= option in the kernel boot line to
 > >  > set a mode. Is there one for the kernel boot in either of your SD/USB?
 > >
 > > are there plans to package OLPC's bootanim for fedora, to allow
 > > bundling it instead of plymouth?  is plymouth replaceable in fedora?
 > 
 > I don't believe its easy to replace as I think it does some things
 > other than just show pretty pictures but it does have a plugin so it
 > would be possible to have plymouth display the OLPC bootanim.

i'm sure plymouth can do that.  it's frustrating that
bobby's/mitch's recent speedup to bootanim may end up being of no
help to anyone.

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org