[Mageia-dev] RFC: Splash + Quiet.

Sat Mar 10 20:29:16 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 10/03/12 17:04 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 10 March 2012 17:40, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>> We've used the kernel command line "splash=silent" in the past (as
+>> opposed to "splash=verbose") to indicate that we want a splash screen.
+>>
+>> Most of the upstream projects just check for "splash" on it's own. The
+>> absence of the word "splash" means the same as our current "splash=verbose".
+>>
+>> In order to make this work properly we have to patch both upstream
+>> systemd, initscripts, dracut and plymouth.
+>>
+>> As far as I can tell, there is no gain in doing this so I'm intending to
+>> convert our usage to the upstream defaults. If anyone objects, please
+>> speak out now!!
+> 
+> just make sure upgrade is done smoothly (s/splash=verbose/splash/
+> and /splash=quiet//)
+
+I think I'll go for the exact opposite :)
+
+
+>> As a separate issue, kernel debug output is controlled by the "quiet"
+>> keyword. We don't use this (haven't since 2003) but personally I believe
+>> it's time to include this. It gives a much smoother and more user
+>> friendly boot.
+> 
+> Yeah I was thinking about that one for some time...
+
+I've also asked Thomas about the frame buffer logo images that get
+displayed very early on. Ideally we could kill them too.
+
+Col
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