From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 10 17:28:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA18100 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:28:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA18093 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:28:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA02013; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:27:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811110127.RAA02013@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Doug White cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: splashkit current status? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:23:49 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:27:15 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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