From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 10 16:24:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA12373 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:24:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA12362 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:24:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA15347; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:23:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:23:49 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Mike Smith cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: splashkit current status? In-Reply-To: <199811102103.NAA00544@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message