Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 00:07:36 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com> To: ponds!atrad.adelaide.edu.au!msmith Cc: ponds!csv.warwick.ac.uk!csubl, ponds!freefall.cdrom.com!freebsd-hackers, ponds!ravenock.cybercity.dk!sos Subject: Re: What happened to the splash screen? Message-ID: <199702060507.AAA26461@lakes.water.net>
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Mike Smith writes: > Thomas David Rivers stands accused of saying: > > > > > > There was also a problem with VGA font corruption; did that get fixed > > > Soren? The last difficulty is that during device probes, interrupts are > > > turned off so you can't hotkey between the splash and the probe display. > > > > I'm just curious; if this were to get "put in" - would it do > > something meaningful on monochrome (i.e. Hercules compatible) displays? > > What's "meaningful"? Very good question; actually... Terry, you wanna field that one? :-) :-) > With a single VGA bitmap in the kernel, the > bloat for the splash screen runs to about 70K. Short of having a seperate > monochrome image, or a F/S dither, it'll just ignore the splash and probe > as normal. Seems fine to me... I just wanted to make sure we didn't loose support for the monochrome, or serial consoles just to get some color up there - but that's covered. I wouldn't bother with a separate image, or dithering the other one down to black-and-white. Usually when you have one of these it's because your not too interested in such issues. > > > - Dave R. - > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ - Dave R. -
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