From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 24 14:44:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA08619 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 14:44:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from SandBox.CyberCity.dk (aalb19.pip.dknet.dk [194.192.0.179]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA08580 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 14:44:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sos@localhost) by SandBox.CyberCity.dk (8.7.6/8.7.3) id XAA00923; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 23:29:50 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199609232129.XAA00923@SandBox.CyberCity.dk> Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 23:29:50 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Soren Schmidt" Cc: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov, rminnich@sarnoff.com, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, brandon@glacier.cold.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <1361.843508254@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 23, 96 12:50:54 pm From: sos@FreeBSD.org Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who wrote: > > > > 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! :-)? > > The option to compile it into your kernel would not be a complete > waste at all. Again, consider those who are shipping products based > on FreeBSD but do not want to announce its presence as such. I can > now think of several who would use this feature, were it implemented. Exactly :), I'll put the hooks in next time I'm around in syscons... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..