Dear fbdev and fbcon developers, Could you please voice your opinion on the following patch series? This series adds simple bootsplash functionality on top of fbcon. A (simple!) kernel based bootsplash allows system integrators to show an earlier and more reliable bootsplash, completely hiding the kernel's text output and VT (the 'quiet' option still displays warnings and a blinking cursor). Over the years, there have been many issues with a splash in userspace, and the easiest fix is to show the splash in the kernel - see the first commit for details. This is a huge simplification for embedded systems and desktops alike. As it is now, the bootsplash is implemented as a modification of fbcon, but since the userspace ABI is a platform device, it can be moved elsewhere in the future without breaking userspace. If you would like an example splash file to test the code with, or even a tool to generate it, I'm happy to provide them. Finally, I will re-send the patch with the TODOs removed as soon as the file format is accepted. Many thanks to Takashi Iwai and Oliver Neukum for their continuous feedback on the code during development of this series. Max Staudt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
