[APPLIED] [PATCH 0/2] [Maverick] maintain the bootloader screen display

[Leann Ogasawara]

Applied to Maverick linux master.

Thanks,
Leann

On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 16:36 +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.
> 
> 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(-)
> 
>