--- In "Jesse Off" <> wrote:
> Currently, our MBR code (Only 446 bytes available after partition
> table) loads in a kernel and an initrd from dedicated partitions on
> the SD card and starts Linux. The initrd contains the FPGA bitstream
> and the Linux driver modules for SD. These are loaded (along with
> modules for the ethernet and serial ports) and then the initrd does a
> pivot_root to the SD EXT2 filesystem and then frees the initrd. There
> is no onboard flash on the TS-7300-- only SD.
Hmmm...
If I am reading this right, the video framebuffer would be available
for the boot process - after initrd is loaded but before pivot_root....
If the framebuffer is available early, is it possible to use bootsplash?
This would make the bootup prettly slick...
--Yan
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