Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:59:19 +0200 From: Hanspeter Roth <hampi@rootshell.be> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alternate menu logos Message-ID: <20050414185919.GA15326@gicco.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20050414095534.U24742@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20050411110240.GA2118@gicco.homeip.net> <20050414095534.U24742@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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On Apr 14 at 10:13, Doug White spoke: > (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.) The original subject was not technical but it was precise. > 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 If somebody provides the script, nice. But if it's just another suggestion that only delays the matter like the talks of the "new FreeBSD Logo" did then it's better to have a quick and dirty solution. > 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. Of course this solution is more flexible and thus to favor. Just somebody do it... -Hanspeter
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