Previously Alan Cox wrote:
> The real question is whether you want to do this in the kernel or simply at
> the moment the kernel flips to user space. An init can easily open vt2,
> draw a pretty boot screen with something like nanogui or bogl and then
> continue to spew the text to vt1 so anyone can see the text messages if
> need be.
It takes a while before the kernel starts init though, especially if you
have things like SCSI controllers to initialise. If you do not use fb
you can have your bootloader setup a pretty bootscreen, but if you need
fb I don't see how you can prevent the textscreen with kernel messages.
Wichert.
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