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Snuffi · 03-10-2008, 08:59 AM

I think it's not as trivial as it may seem. To make the splash screen easily exchangeable they'd have to put it into the file system so you could overwrite the file (as opposed to having to exchange the geaphic inside the firmware and reflash the device, which would not be a desireable process). If they put it into the file system the embedded linux would already have been booted (or there would be no file system) to access the file so you couldn't really use it as a splash screen (except maybe for loading the boo reader).

I'm not sure how the device excatly works and there are two different splash screens so one might in fact be a splash screen used while embdedded linux is already booted and while waiting for the library to load. Problem is that the one screen the people here want to change is the first one and that one is unlikely to be easily exchangeable.

03-10-2008, 08:59 AM	#34
Snuffi Addict Posts: 245 Karma: 718 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Vienna Device: Pocketbook Pro 612, Bookeen Cybook Gen3	I think it's not as trivial as it may seem. To make the splash screen easily exchangeable they'd have to put it into the file system so you could overwrite the file (as opposed to having to exchange the geaphic inside the firmware and reflash the device, which would not be a desireable process). If they put it into the file system the embedded linux would already have been booted (or there would be no file system) to access the file so you couldn't really use it as a splash screen (except maybe for loading the boo reader). I'm not sure how the device excatly works and there are two different splash screens so one might in fact be a splash screen used while embdedded linux is already booted and while waiting for the library to load. Problem is that the one screen the people here want to change is the first one and that one is unlikely to be easily exchangeable.