On 4/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jon Sharp</b> <<a href="mailto:jon@jonsharp.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jon@jonsharp.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote">
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<div>I am a long time user of Yaboot and there is a particular feature that I would like to help develop, but I would first like to know whether it is even feasible. I would like to see a splash screen on boot, similar to the Apple BootX splash screen, rather than the standard text prompt.
</div></blockquote></div><br>Don't supposed you'd be willing to settle for some ASCII art, huh? I can pretty easily see you configuring specifying a text file in yaboot.conf, say asciisplash=/etc/yaboot_splash.txt, and having yaboot dump that to screen with its existing prom_printf()'s.
<br><br>One of many image-to-ascii converters:<br><a href="http://www.glassgiant.com/ascii/">http://www.glassgiant.com/ascii/</a><br><br>But, I'm guessing you actually want to render binary images, huh? :-)<br><br>:-Dustin
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