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Today's Topics:
1. Re: using plymouth for a little more than boot animations
(Charlie Brej)
2. Re: using plymouth for a little more than boot animations
(Daniel Drake)
3. Re: using plymouth for a little more than boot animations
(Daniel Drake)
4. Re: using plymouth for a little more than boot animations
(Charlie Brej)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:36:37 +0100
From: Charlie Brej <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: using plymouth for a little more than boot animations
To: Daniel Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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On 11/06/09 17:41, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How heavily is plymouth tied into the standard boot process, from both
> the technical and design-level standpoints?
>
> We're considering using it for OLPCs boot animation but we have some
> extra requirements.
>
> We have a security system implemented in the initramfs, and one part of
> this is tasked with retreiving an activation lease (which basically is a
> signature which allows the system to boot for a certain number of days).
> It takes a little while to obtain this lease and has a
> (framebuffer-based) GUI on top of it.
>
> I'll try to explain in more detail:
> All this happens very early in the boot sequence -- before starting the
> boot animation, before starting any init scripts etc.
>
> The GUI comes up, with an XO icon in the center of the screen. The
> serial number of the laptop is printed immediately below.
> On the next "line" there are 3 icons, greyed out to begin with:
> 1. USB
> 2. SD
> 3. Wireless
Do you have the images that are used for these? I should be able to make
something that suits you now.
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:08:44 +0100
From: Daniel Drake <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: using plymouth for a little more than boot animations
To: Charlie Brej <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
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Hi Charlie,
2009/6/25 Charlie Brej <[email protected]>:
> Do you have the images that are used for these? I should be able to make
> something that suits you now.
Thanks a lot for the offer, I'd love to see this happen but I should
first tell you that we decided to stay with OLPC's custom boot anim
for now. We got held back on the serial console and performance issues
with plymouth and decided to stay with something that we already have
working for the time being. I hope we can return to this.. I haven't
forgotten about the performance improvement patches that were posted,
I've just been tied up with other things.
To answer the question though, you can find the images in the images
subdirectory of this git repo:
git://dev.laptop.org/users/cscott/act-gui
http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/cscott/act-gui
Daniel
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:21:41 +0100
From: Daniel Drake <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: using plymouth for a little more than boot animations
To: Charlie Brej <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
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<[email protected]>
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2009/6/25 Daniel Drake <[email protected]>:
> Thanks a lot for the offer, I'd love to see this happen but I should
> first tell you that we decided to stay with OLPC's custom boot anim
> for now. We got held back on the serial console and performance issues
> with plymouth and decided to stay with something that we already have
> working for the time being. I hope we can return to this.. I haven't
> forgotten about the performance improvement patches that were posted,
> I've just been tied up with other things.
I should add that help would be much appreciated if people can take
such work off our hands...
We have a contributors program and various lending libraries for
getting access to an XO.
And redhat have a bunch for their employees.
Daniel
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:29:52 +0100
From: Charlie Brej <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: using plymouth for a little more than boot animations
To: Daniel Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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On 25/06/09 22:08, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Hi Charlie,
>
> 2009/6/25 Charlie Brej<[email protected]>:
>> Do you have the images that are used for these? I should be able to make
>> something that suits you now.
>
> Thanks a lot for the offer, I'd love to see this happen but I should
> first tell you that we decided to stay with OLPC's custom boot anim
> for now. We got held back on the serial console and performance issues
> with plymouth and decided to stay with something that we already have
> working for the time being. I hope we can return to this.. I haven't
> forgotten about the performance improvement patches that were posted,
> I've just been tied up with other things.
>
> To answer the question though, you can find the images in the images
> subdirectory of this git repo:
> git://dev.laptop.org/users/cscott/act-gui
> http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/cscott/act-gui
>
> Daniel
Took a look at the images and they are exactly what I wanted.
Actually, I just wanted to have a target implementation for using the script
plugin. I'm just using it to walk through a plugin implementation and fill in
any missing parts which would be useful. I don't have anything close to working
atm, but it would be good if you could have a look in a couple months at the
implementation and see if it fills your requirements.
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