Splash screens and initramdisk [LWN.net]

Splash screens and initramdisk

Posted Sep 23, 2008 9:53 UTC (Tue) by etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr (guest, #38022)
In reply to: Splash screens and initramdisk by michaeljt
Parent article: LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds

> Non-fatal messages should not be shown on the console by default of course.

Even if the only retribution the software writers ask for is a copyright line?
Even if the kernel is going to unsupported (tainted) mode loading a driver?
Anyways, it is a lost cause already.

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Splash screens and initramdisk

Posted Sep 23, 2008 10:04 UTC (Tue) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]

Those things are hidden by bootsplashes even today. But even if they weren't, how do you get around the problem of several hundred lines of attributions and notifications going past in a few seconds? That will not help the people wanting recognition.