Re: bootsplash for netbsd?

[Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh%kathe.in@localhost>]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:18:05AM -0600, Roy Bixler wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 07:58:03PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> > perhaps my googling skills are bad, but i couldn't find a way
> > to present a bootsplash under netbsd.
> > 
> > does it exist?
> > if it does, where may i find more information about it's usage?
> 
> It is under the GENERIC kernel configuration of NetBSD-6.1.4:
> 
> # enable splash screen support; requires genfb or radeonfb
> #options 	SPLASHSCREEN
> 
> It looks like, at minimum, you have to build your own kernel with that
> option enabled.  I've never tried it, so I don't know what other
> requirements there might be to make it work.
> 
> I did find a blog posting that might be useful though:
> 
> http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/bx/blosxom.cgi/index.front?-tags=vesa

many thanks roy, the pointers are quite useful.

~mayuresh