OF GUI boot?

[Przemyslaw Iskra]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 10:04:43AM -0500, Jon Sharp wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> 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.  Perhaps a keystroke would kill the splash and  
> allow control of boot parameters.  Perhaps something even more  
> sophisticated could eventually be developed for a GUI selection of  
> boot devices, similar perhaps to the OS 9 loader of old.

have you seen towers of hanoi for open firmware [1] ?
i think it should not be very hard to write some code which displays
a bitmap using openfirmware commands

1. http://www.kernelthread.com/hanoi/src/hanoimania/hanoi-gfx.macprom

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