splash image during boot - new applet?

[Michele Sanges]

Roberto,

the application is almost completed.
It's a program that starts a daemon and then exits; the daemon reads a
configuration file for setting:
- the splash image (in .ppm format)
- position, dimension and RGB colour of the progress bar.
and shows them.

It is possible to communicate with the daemon by means a fifo; the
possible commands are:
- the percentage of the boot process
- the 'exit' command in order to kill the daemon at the end of boot
process.

Best regards.
Michele

Il giorno lun, 04/02/2008 alle 13.48 +0100, Roberto A. Foglietta ha
scritto:
> 2008/2/4, Michele Sanges <michele.sanges at otomelara.it>:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm writing an application in order to show a splash image and a
> > progress bar during the boot phase of my embedded device.
> > This application is based on framebuffer device and is in user space so,
> > unlike 'bootsplash', don't require any kernel patch (similar to
> > 'splashy', but not use the directFB library).
> >
> > Someone think that this application could be useful if added to busybox
> > as applet?
> >
> 
>  Considering the growing number of embedded devices based on linux
> embedded and busybox it seems to me a good idea.  Please take a look
> to asus_osd (from Eee PC source repository) which use X11 but it could
> be generalized to use FB in userspace. It uses queue in order to
> communicate the show... so the progress in boot process too.
> 
>  ftp://dlsvr02.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePC/701/ASUS_ACPI_071126.rar
> 
>  In that .rar ther are asus_osd.tar.gz containing the sources
> 
>  Ciao,