Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:13:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Alternate menu logos Message-ID: <20050414095534.U24742@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20050411110240.GA2118@gicco.homeip.net> References: <20050411110240.GA2118@gicco.homeip.net>
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(Changing the subject since its not reflective of the tone of the message. Apologies to the poster, but since this is a touchy subject I'm going to make this a more technical discussion.) On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > - or have an convenient flag in loaders.conf that allows to > run Beastie menu but display some other decoration? I I have an idea and the patch in PR 74577 is about halfway there. I suggest providing a script that forth-ifies a provided ASCII logo, and a loader option to load a banner file from disk. This way, if, say, an OEM wanted to put contact information in there, they could put in loader.conf: banner_enable="YES" banner_file="/boot/oem.banner" and have that displayed instead of the beastie. The forthifier script would turn the file into a forth function definition and then it can be included with standard routines in the loader. Then your banner function would just call it. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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