pretty boot plymouth security

[Peter Robinson]

>  > >   > 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.

Peter