[PATCH 0/4] [Maverick] maintain the bootloader screen display

[Matthew Garrett]

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.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org