On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 09:16:33PM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 09:12:44PM +0100, Raphael Bossek wrote:
> > for all of you looking for a graphical start screen, this is the right patch. I've modified it a little bit
> > so more init scripts are supported and a additional patch against the latest linux-2.4.0-test12 is part of
> > this tarball too!
>
> AFAIK there is a problem with this patch since some of the copyright
> messages of the drivers are not displayed anymore. since some of them
> require the Copyright announcement, this is a violation of the license. As
> far as I know that was the reason for not putting that patch into the
> kernel, long ago.
That patch has the ability for startup scripts to display messages to the
screen (for such things as "Initializing network", "Initializing Sound", etc.
I dont see why the same thing couldn't be used by the kernel drivers.
>
> Greetings
> Bernd
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