Thread: iLiad Achieving "zero" boot time
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Old 01-28-2010, 10:41 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by paskino View Post
Now, I've got the idea but I have no clue on how to make it work... any of you knows if it is possible?
Unfortunately, it is not possible with our current understanding of the iliad: the bootloader is the one responsible of drawing boot splash image, and the bootloader is off-limits for us :-(.

The best we would do is having the kernel redrawing the last page viewed somewhere in the kernel initialization sequence, but that is rather convoluted.

It would be better to change the shutdown scripts to "save" the framebuffer and modify the startup scripts to display it before launching contentLister...

I can assist in this one last thing (providing binaries to save the framebuffer and to display an image into the framebuffer), if you are interested in investigating it .
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