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Re: RedBoot to display a splash screen
- From: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>
- To: panayot <panayot dot daskalov at mps dot bg>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:58:45 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] RedBoot to display a splash screen
- References: <200807281849.52364.panayot.daskalov@mps.bg>
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 06:49:52PM +0300, panayot wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> we have a project from a customer to build a Linux BSP for a specific board
> which will use RedBoot as a bootloader. One of the requirements is to have
> RedBoot display an initial splash screen after power up. I'm not sure that
> Redboot is capable of interacting with our display and present anything there
> (because it doesn't have any display drivers). Can anyone tell - is it
> possible to have Redboot display splash screen or whatever?
You need to add support for this.
On PC motherboard style systems eCos knows how to output to a VGA text
screen. So ASCII art would be pretty easy to do. For other
architectures it will be more work.
Andrew
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