UsplashInitramfs

Revision 1 as of 2005-11-03 16:46:13

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Summary

initramfs currently doesn't output to the progress bar in usplash, only to the text output area. We would prefer it if it would do both.

Rationale

This will become more important if usplash grows a quiet/notext option, and you lose all text feedback. It's also just prettier and shinier to do this "right".

Use cases

Bob boots his computer and sees feedback, and this makes him happy. Go Bob. Jane boots a LiveCD and is THRILLED about all the wonderful progress bar bling.

Implementation

We will dedicate an arbitrary ganularity of percentage ticks to each output (both quiet and not) in initramfs, incrementing a tick counter each time, then pass that count to init/rc when we hand off control, so it knows where to begin from (so the bar doesn't jump)

Outstanding issues

None