wok-6.x diff plymouth/description.txt @ rev 25445
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author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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date | Tue Sep 06 07:38:52 2022 +0000 (2022-09-06) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/plymouth/description.txt Tue Sep 06 07:38:52 2022 +0000 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ 1.4 +Plymouth is an application that runs very early in the boot process 1.5 +(even before the root filesystem is mounted!) that provides a graphical 1.6 +boot animation while the boot process happens in the background. 1.7 + 1.8 +It is designed to work on systems with DRM modesetting drivers. 1.9 +The idea is that early on in the boot process the native mode for the 1.10 +computer is set, plymouth uses that mode, and that mode stays throughout 1.11 +the entire boot process up to and after X starts. 1.12 +Ideally, the goal is to get rid of all flicker during startup. 1.13 + 1.14 +For systems that don't have DRM mode settings drivers, plymouth falls 1.15 +back to text mode (it can also use a legacy /dev/fb interface). 1.16 + 1.17 +In either text or graphics mode, the boot messages are completely occluded. 1.18 +After the root file system is mounted read-write, the messages are dumped 1.19 +to /var/log/boot.log. 1.20 +Also, the user can see the messages at any time during boot up by hitting 1.21 +the escape key.