Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:33:42 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@sarnoff.com> Cc: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>, Brandon Gillespie <brandon@glacier.cold.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. Message-ID: <199609231833.LAA06327@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Mon, 23 Sep 1996 13:08:40 -0400 (EDT) "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM> wrote: > splash page is a bad idea. Makes things much more complex, adds > opportunities for bugs ... ...I've been sort of reading this thread a bit... And, one thing that occurs to me... If you have a splash screen, really, you _have_ to put the image in the kernel executable... After all, how are you supposed to read it off disk if you haven't done autoconfiguration yet (which displays those icky messages! :-)? Seems like a complete waste to me... -- save the ancient forests - http://www.bayarea.net/~thorpej/forest/ -- Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939
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