[Mageia-dev] RFC: Splash + Quiet.

[Colin Guthrie]

'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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