From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 23 11:44:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA06861 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:44:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA06844 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:44:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA06327; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:33:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609231833.LAA06327@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: "Ron G. Minnich" Cc: Joe Greco , Brandon Gillespie , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:33:42 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 23 Sep 1996 13:08:40 -0400 (EDT) "Ron G. Minnich" 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