The Linux Progress Patch for 2.6 Kernels

hello everyone,
For people who might be interested in having a
boot screen for linux or those interested in the linux progress patch for the 2.6 kernels. I have one that works fine with x86. I have not tested on the other platforms but it should work fine. It has been completely rewritten to suite the changed frame buffer code in 2.6 and has been renamed to ELPP, the enhanced linux progress patch.

It can be downloaded from

        http://students.iiit.net/~prasad_s/lpp/

The features include...
o Showing customizable number of messages at a time
o The success/failure/warning status of the scripts Just tryout the theme that comes by default!

The patch was made against 2.6.0-Test5 but should perfectly work for the recent ones too.

Comments/Suggestions are welcome.

Prasad

Failure is not an Option

I need the following patch w/ test8-mm1 to get it compile. Otherwise it works quite well (i810fb). The screen is a bit distorted for the first few messages after elpp kicks in and the bottom line, where the messages appear, isn't cleared to the end. Also the background right of the eye is changing from black to red in the middle of the boot progress for no apparent reason (I've no supporting bootscripts).

Thanks,

Jan

@@ -303,11 +303,11 @@
     size = pitch * font->height;
     size += buf_align;
     size &= ~buf_align;
-    dst = info->pixmap.addr + fb_get_buffer_offset(info, size);
+    dst = fb_get_buffer_offset(info, &info->pixmap, size);
     image.data = dst;
     src = font->data + (ch & charmask) * font->height * width;
 
-    move_buf_aligned(info, dst, src, pitch, width, image.height);
+    move_buf_aligned(info, &info->pixmap, dst, pitch, src, width, image.height);
     info->fbops->fb_imageblit(info, &image);
 }
 

???? What is elpp ?

LPP for 2.6?! See [1] and Prasad's earlier post [2] about it. i810fb is working great without it - thanks for your work :).

Jan

[1] http://students.iiit.net/~prasad_s/lpp/
[2]
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106681497425277&w=2

                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

;-)