Date: 28 Dec 2001 21:19:32 -0500 From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is splash in GENERIC? Message-ID: <1009592372.30665.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <3C2D1E15.A0227235@glue.umd.edu> References: <3C2D1E15.A0227235@glue.umd.edu>
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On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 20:36, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > I noticed the thread a little while ago about shrinking the kernel to > get it on the release floppies (was that here or on hackers?) and splash > seems like a good candidate for the chopping block. AFAICT it's not > required if you don't want a splash screen and the install disks aren't > set up for a default splash screen. I just tried making a kernel without > splash and it seems to work fine, in fact I'm writing this email on the > same machine. Of course, I've only been running this kernel for a few > minutes so I guess something bad could crop up. Is there any reason its > included in GENERIC? It also is required for console screen savers, I believe. You should have no problems if you remove it from your kernel conf. However, you won't be able to display console screen savers. Checkout man 4 splash. Joe > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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