Re: Grub splashimage (yes me again)

[pcpa]

Quoting Jeremy Katz <address@hidden>:

  Hi,

> On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 11:44, Jason Thomas wrote:
> > actually the copyright thing is so it can be included upstream. I'd
> > prefer if it was not a debian thing. 
> > 
> > okuji do you think its possible to include the splashimage stuff if
> the
> > author supports it?
> 
> For more information on the current status of the splashimage stuff as
> far as I'm concerned --
> 
> I've updated it a bit for 0.93 so that instead of adding the concept
> of
> a display, it's instead just another terminal type (the terminal
> framework made this the obvious thing to do).  I also dropped out some
> of the functionality which touched lots of code but which we don't use
> at Red Hat just to ease the maintenance for me.  
> 
> As far as support is concerned, at this point, I'm pretty much tied to
> supporting it whether it goes in mainline or not, so if Okuji is
> willing
> to include it, I can probably be easily convinced to support it.

  Cool.

> Attached is the current diff (well, this doesn't have the help and
> there
> might have been one other support patch that was related to the
> graphics
> stuff, but I'm about to head out the door so can't check right now) to
> show the state of things.  A few things to keep in mind: 1) I know all
> of the indentation doesn't match the rest of GRUB, easy to fix if it's
> to be included, I was just kind of going on autopilot :)  2) there are
> definitely some enhancements that could be made to this if someone
> were
> sufficiently enterprising 
> 
> Jeremy

  I attached the current patches used by Conectiva (for 0.92), some patches
are a bit messed. There are some cosmetic new patches, like the viewport
and chainboot comands.
  One patch that is arguable is the one to boot on machines with less than
608Kb of lower memory.
  One that I think is very useful is the grub-0.92-mem_lower.patch, it is
relatively simple, and will allow grub to boot some computers where only
lilo and syslinux were booting, basically, this patch checks early if
grub will fail, and in that case, use a memory detection code almost
indentical to syslinux.

Paulo

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