pretty boot plymouth security

[Gary C Martin]

On 9 Mar 2009, at 16:47, pgf at laptop.org wrote:

> 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.

Yea :-(

But on a positive note, great karma for the effort, and in my book,  
worth more than a few rounds of drink if they are ever in Edinburgh,  
UK :-)

Will need to test plymouth I guess. All I know about it just now is  
it's a good make of Gin.

--Gary

> paul
> =---------------------
> paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
>
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