[Splashy-devel] splashy initramfs support

[Otavio Salvador]

Pat Suwalski <pats at xandros.com> writes:

> Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>>You also seem to parse the command-line for "vga=", which is not
>>>correct. One of our internal patches is to make splashy not complain
>>>about that. When using LILO, you can never have "vga=" in the
>>>commandline. It is not possible.
>> If you're not checking for vga= param, how do you check if we have fb
>> support?
>
> Let's put it another way: if there is no fb support, then splashy just
> spits out the progress messages in text. Why bother checking?
>
> And to put it another way: with lilo there is literally *no way* to
> have a "vga=" message in /proc/cmdline.

Ok but would be good to teach splashy how to detect if there's fb support.

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