This "bug" will serve as a means of communication about the progress of the implementation of the LPP (Linux Progress Patch) into Gentoo. Various individuals have a hand in this, and coordination is a necessary task, as this is turning out to be too much for the forums.
Created attachment 5548 [details] the modified ebegin function out of functions.sh this is a addon for the normal ebegin script. It checks if /proc/progres exists - if true then it searches the file /etc/init.d/lpp for the string which ebegin should print out. If it finds the string then there is also a percent value before the string which it then echo's to /proc/progres with the original string.
Created attachment 5549 [details] the lpp file which contains the starting strings with percent values the percent values in that file are not sorted. So the progress bar will flip around ;-) But it shows nice how the file have to be build.
Ok, so where are the progress patch ?
Created attachment 5584 [details, diff] the lpp patch for gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r10 this is the lpp patch applyied against gentoo-sources 2.4.19-r10 (i think it also should work with older version - but it is not tested). This patch is so big because it contains boot splash images for 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 (i've taken the gentoo logo from the gentoo logos page). Test it if it works and then let me know what have happens ;-) - it is also only tested for 800x600 - so please test it also for other resolutions (my laptop can't do more than 800x600).
Forums conversation from previous is at: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=7514 (for documentation purposes, and cross-reference)
Bare LPP patch for kernel 2.4.18 can be found at: ftp://oss.gonicus.de/pub/goto/linux-goto-patch-2.4.18-1.bz2 (found this out from the author of the patch through an email a couple months back) Which patch have you been using, Wolfgang? I'm wondering because I want to know if there is another source for later patches than 2.4.12 other than the above URL.
Yoannez has found the patch for 2.4.19 at http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/kernel-patch-lpp/kernel-patch-lpp_0.4.0-5.tar.gz
Hope there will be a tutorial at gentoo.org to help people using it.
Created attachment 5848 [details] the mo-modifyied version of ebegin (modification by flying_walus)
We shouldn't be using debian patches, especially for such an ancient kernel. I'd prefer to go with the official patches provided by the lpp project on sourceforge...
I think that this has been superceded by the bootsplash support added to the Gentoo kernel and the work being done to add silent bootsplash support to baselayout. Feel free to reopen if I'm wrong. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4460 ***
