From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 14 20:39:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59E8816A4CE for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:39:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obelix.sunrise.ch (mailrelay3.sunrise.ch [194.158.229.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E18E43D49 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:39:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hampi@rootshell.be) Received: from gicco.homeip.net (pop-ls-18-1-dialup-139.freesurf.ch [194.230.186.139]) by obelix.sunrise.ch (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j3EKdewv003216 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:39:42 +0200 Received: from goofy.here (localhost.here [127.0.0.1]) by gicco.homeip.net (8.13.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3EIxJUX033004 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:59:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from hampi@rootshell.be) Received: (from idefix@localhost) by goofy.here (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j3EIxJva033003 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:59:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from hampi@rootshell.be) X-Authentication-Warning: goofy.here: idefix set sender to hampi@rootshell.be using -f Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:59:19 +0200 From: Hanspeter Roth To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050414185919.GA15326@gicco.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20050411110240.GA2118@gicco.homeip.net> <20050414095534.U24742@carver.gumbysoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050414095534.U24742@carver.gumbysoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: Alternate menu logos X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:39:48 -0000 On Apr 14 at 10:13, Doug White spoke: > (Changing the subject since its not reflective of the tone of the > message. Apologies to the poster, but since this is a touchy subject I'm > going to make this a more technical discussion.) The original subject was not technical but it was precise. > On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > > - or have an convenient flag in loaders.conf that allows to > > run Beastie menu but display some other decoration? > > I I have an idea and the patch in PR 74577 is about halfway there. I > suggest providing a script that forth-ifies a provided ASCII logo, and a If somebody provides the script, nice. But if it's just another suggestion that only delays the matter like the talks of the "new FreeBSD Logo" did then it's better to have a quick and dirty solution. > loader option to load a banner file from disk. This way, if, say, an OEM > wanted to put contact information in there, they could put in loader.conf: > > banner_enable="YES" > banner_file="/boot/oem.banner" > > and have that displayed instead of the beastie. > > The forthifier script would turn the file into a forth function definition > and then it can be included with standard routines in the loader. Then > your banner function would just call it. Of course this solution is more flexible and thus to favor. Just somebody do it... -Hanspeter