Le mercredi 07 mars 2012 à 17:56 +0800, Michael Chang a écrit :
在 2012年3月7日下午4:40,Raymond Wooninck
寫道: On Wednesday, March 07, 2012, Michael Chang
wrote: Btw .. is there any dependency to loader ? Grub2 seems to be better than Grub1 for Plymouth because it allows to keep mode setting from loader to the kernel. This would have reduced flicking in transition from loader to kernel?
Hi Michael, This was one of the reasons why I already started to use grub2 to see the effect on Plymouth. Unfortunately things didn't really changed with regards to reducing the flickering in transition.
To be honest this is just guess, perhaps we should see how fedora treat both (they should use grub2+plymouth) ..
I have looked into this and they have a little different setup than openSUSE. At this moment our plymouth is waiting until udev has created the devices, etc (required for the consoles) and then starts showing the splash on /dev/tty7. This means that there is a little gap between grub2 and the plymouth splash.
Yes, it would be great to eliminate the gap as much as possible. In theory we can use firmware framebuffer (VESA) in early stage and can display earlier than KMS framebuffer, but it seems Plymouth can only renders on KMS FB ?
No, I don't know where this urban legend is coming from, but plymouth is
able to render on Vesa FB if there is no KMS FB.
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Frederic Crozat