Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:28:57 +1000 From: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot banner project Message-ID: <1114644537.45212.74.camel@dirk.no.domain> In-Reply-To: <426FDE69.8090909@samsco.org> References: <57436.216.177.243.42.1114582155.localmail@webmail.dnswatch.com> <426FDE69.8090909@samsco.org>
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On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 12:48 -0600, Scott Long wrote: > /dev/null wrote: > > Hello any & all, > > O.K. I feel I must preface this with an acknowledgment that I *know* > > this is a silly project *because* given the *incredibly* long uptimes > > that FreeBSD is known for. >>But<< for those *few* times when FreeBSDers > > see a boot screen, shouldn't it look really nice? Shouldn't also be able > > to reflect the Administrators tastes and personality? Well, this is the > > premise for my attempting this project. But before I start, I want to > > submit an RFC. So consider this an Request for comments. This is an > > attempt to create a Graphical boot screen that initially has the > > following layout: > > (a fixed width font required to view the layout correctly) > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > | some | > > | sort | > > | of | > > | graphic goes in this area | > > |-------------------------------------------------------- > > | boot | > > | | > > | messages | > > | | > > | seen | > > | | > > | here | > > | bla... | > > | bla... | > > | bla... | > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -Chris > > > Is it possible to do this without having to switch to an entirely > raster-based console? Raster consoles (like what SuSE uses) have > been discussed in the past, and the common thinking is that the > loss in reliability and loss in speed is a significant issue to > consider. For a small, non-flashy banner, grab a stack of unused characters and draw a logo into them. Much like what moused does to give us a nice pointer-shaped pointer rather than an ugly block. It'll be 1-bit, but you can pick the foreground and background color in each block from a selection of the most popular console text colours ever :) I think you could allocate the top two rows of text to this and get a nice effect without losing much. And no raster, either.
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