From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 28 18:19:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-28-046.nc.rr.com [66.57.28.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2B8E37B41E for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 18:19:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (marcus@shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBT2Ip528742; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 21:18:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: Why is splash in GENERIC? From: Joe Clarke To: Brandon Fosdick Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3C2D1E15.A0227235@glue.umd.edu> References: <3C2D1E15.A0227235@glue.umd.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0 (Preview Release) Date: 28 Dec 2001 21:19:32 -0500 Message-Id: <1009592372.30665.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 20:36, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > I noticed the thread a little while ago about shrinking the kernel to > get it on the release floppies (was that here or on hackers?) and splash > seems like a good candidate for the chopping block. AFAICT it's not > required if you don't want a splash screen and the install disks aren't > set up for a default splash screen. I just tried making a kernel without > splash and it seems to work fine, in fact I'm writing this email on the > same machine. Of course, I've only been running this kernel for a few > minutes so I guess something bad could crop up. Is there any reason its > included in GENERIC? It also is required for console screen savers, I believe. You should have no problems if you remove it from your kernel conf. However, you won't be able to display console screen savers. Checkout man 4 splash. Joe > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message