I try to compile 2.6.8.1 kernel with the following option enabled: Device drivers ---> Bootsplash configuration ---> [*] Bootup splash screen I get errors and the compilation stops. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge bootsplash 2. emerge development-sources 3. cd /usr/src/linux 4. genkernel --menuconfig all Actual Results: The compilation process stops, because of errors in kernel source code. Errors are in the following files: drivers/video/bootsplash/bootsplash.c : line 686 drivers/video/bootsplash/render.c : line 449 drivers/video/console/fbcon.c : line 663 Expected Results: I looked in the source code and the header files, also in /sbin/bootsplash_patch script. After this I thought bootsplash_patch does not support this version of kernel yet. So I rechecked everything once again and I found out that the function prototypes are indeed different in 2.6.8.1 from the versions in 2.6.7. My soulution was to change the kernel source, thus allowing it to compile correctly. Below is something like diff of the changes (in imperfect format, alas): ------------------------------------- drivers/video/bootsplash/bootsplash.c -686: fb_set_cmap(&cmap,1,info); +686: fb_set_cmap(&cmap,info); ------------------------------------- drivers/video/bootsplash/render.c -449: fb_copy_cmap(&cursor->image.cmap, &info->cursor.image.cmap, 0); +449: fb_copy_cmap(&cursor->image.cmap, &info->cursor.image.cmap); ------------------------------------- drivers/video/console/fbcon.c -663: logo = 0; +663: /* logo = 0; */ After changing lines in bootsplash.c and render.c, and commenting out one line in fbcon.c the kernel at least compiles. I still have to check if it works, though. Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.4.25-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.25-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-tbird -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-tbird -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl http://gentoo.inode.at http://gentoo.netnitco.net http://src.gentoo.pl" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bootsplash crypt cups dvd dvdr encode f77 foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype unicode x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"
We're migrating over to using gensplash/fbsplash in favour of bootsplash. You can get it from http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock or you could just merge gentoo-dev-sources which has it included. Marking as WONTFIX as I don't think anybody works on bootsplash anymore.
