Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:27:15 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: splashkit current status? Message-ID: <199811110127.RAA02013@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:23:49 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811101608580.11516-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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> On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > The topic of the splashkit came up today and I'm curious to know what it's > > > current status is. I see a commit to syscons in early August about it but > > > the only patches available otherwise are from February. And is the 2.2.x > > > patch any good? > > > > > > Could you shed some light, Mike? :-) > > > > I played with it again a little bit the other night. > > > > The basic problems with the splashkit as it stands for 2.2.x are that > > it's really limited to 320x200x8bpp or 640x480x4bpp, and it requires > > some quite ugly hackery to the kernel and bootblocks. > > That's okay, 2.2.x isn't the target. I was particuarly interested in > knowing if the 1998020X bundle that the Project page points to is up to > date. It's "up to date" for when it was released, sure. It's by no means "up to date" for -current. Doing splash things is easier in -current now we have the VESA infrastructure in place, but there's nothing actually happening there at the moment. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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