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Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] We should lastrite splashutils in it's current form and not allow it in tree before
From:       Maxim Koltsov <maksbotan () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2014-07-21 20:31:42
Message-ID: CAB_Kkxyyn4Gd1aatiE98BzMOYsxvJmxht5SeNeLNKxs5FgyzJQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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2014-07-21 23:29 GMT+04:00 Maxim Kammerer <mk@dee.su>:

> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > I'm not against dropping splashutils, but is there an alternative to
> > creating or managing framebuffer-splash in the tree?  fbsplash doesn't
> > seem to be there (tho i don't know if that's the same upstream package
> > or not)
>
> Fbsplash is a part of splashutils. There is also an fbcondecor kernel
> patch, apparently maintained by someone else now. Splashutils have an
> extremely complex structure of daemons, control programs, and
> interaction with the kernel via UVESAFB — I had to revisit this
> structure every time I had to change something wrt. splashutils
> integration.
>
> Not to claim that plymouth is the solution — last time I tried it (~ 2
> years ago) it was practically unusable with OpenRC. It took control of
> the console in some weird and buggy way, etc. I guess you could
> integrate it into a specific system with specific video driver, but I
> gave up on plymouth as a generic solution. Maybe it works well with
> systemd, but from what I gathered the last time, it is (or used to be)
> explicitly disabled on unsupported video cards by the relevant
> distros.


Well, at the moment plymouth works fine for me with OpenRC. I've installed
plymouth-openrc-plugin and it's ok, despite being old and rather
unmaintained. FYI, I use plymouth with dracut initramfs generator.
And I also heard from maintainer (I'm proxy maintainer of plymouth) that it
works with systemd too.


> --
> Maxim Kammerer
> Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte
>
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-07-21 23:29 \
GMT+04:00 Maxim Kammerer <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mk@dee.su" \
target="_blank">mk@dee.su</a>&gt;</span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" \
style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div \
class="">On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Ian Stakenvicius &lt;<a \
href="mailto:axs@gentoo.org">axs@gentoo.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br> &gt; I&#39;m not \
against dropping splashutils, but is there an alternative to<br> &gt; creating or \
managing framebuffer-splash in the tree?   fbsplash doesn&#39;t<br> &gt; seem to be \
there (tho i don&#39;t know if that&#39;s the same upstream package<br> &gt; or \
not)<br> <br>
</div>Fbsplash is a part of splashutils. There is also an fbcondecor kernel<br>
patch, apparently maintained by someone else now. Splashutils have an<br>
extremely complex structure of daemons, control programs, and<br>
interaction with the kernel via UVESAFB — I had to revisit this<br>
structure every time I had to change something wrt. splashutils<br>
integration.<br>
<br>
Not to claim that plymouth is the solution — last time I tried it (~ 2<br>
years ago) it was practically unusable with OpenRC. It took control of<br>
the console in some weird and buggy way, etc. I guess you could<br>
integrate it into a specific system with specific video driver, but I<br>
gave up on plymouth as a generic solution. Maybe it works well with<br>
systemd, but from what I gathered the last time, it is (or used to be)<br>
explicitly disabled on unsupported video cards by the relevant<br>
distros.</blockquote><div>  </div><div>Well, at the moment plymouth works fine for me \
with OpenRC. I&#39;ve installed plymouth-openrc-plugin and it&#39;s ok, despite being \
old and rather unmaintained. FYI, I use plymouth with dracut initramfs \
generator.</div> <div>And I also heard from maintainer (I&#39;m proxy maintainer of \
plymouth) that it works with systemd too.</div><div>  </div><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"> <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
--<br>
Maxim Kammerer<br>
Liberté Linux: <a href="http://dee.su/liberte" \
target="_blank">http://dee.su/liberte</a><br> <br>
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