We have a plan to get grub to display a splash screen and wish the kernel
to maintain this splash through to when we are ready to fire a plymouth
splash to replace it. By making these similar the boot becomes almost
completly splashed and pretty.

There are two patches here, the first provides a new type of VT which
represents the bios screen and is never updated. The second allows grub
to request this functionality.

Comments? For Maverick.

-apw

Andy Whitcroft (2):
UBUNTU: SAUCE: vt -- maintain bootloader screen mode and content
until vt switch
UBUNTU: SAUCE: vt -- allow grub to request automatic vt_handoff

drivers/char/vt.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c | 10 +++++-----
include/linux/kd.h | 1 +
include/linux/screen_info.h | 1 +
include/linux/vt_kern.h | 2 +-
5 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)


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Dispite the [0/4] header there really are only two patches.

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On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 04:36:29PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> We have a plan to get grub to display a splash screen and wish the kernel
> to maintain this splash through to when we are ready to fire a plymouth
> splash to replace it. By making these similar the boot becomes almost
> completly splashed and pretty.
>
> There are two patches here, the first provides a new type of VT which
> represents the bios screen and is never updated. The second allows grub
> to request this functionality.

Does asking the kernel not to change video mode not achieve much the
same goal? That's already possible.

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