[systemd-devel] plymouthd integration

[Ozan Çağlayan]

On 25.12.2010 17:14, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Fri, 26.11.10 16:43, Ozan Çağlayan (ozan at pardus.org.tr) wrote:
>
>>   Can't plymouthd be started as the very first service as possible (or is it
>> already)? Because the progress on my theme doesn't even progress at all ;)
>
> plymouth currently requires the video kmods to be loaded. I discussed
> this briefly with Ray and asked him to maybe change plymouth to actively
> listen to udev events so that we can start it early and that it makes
> use of the video device as soon as they show up instead of delaying this
> to the point where we enumerated and settled everything. (something
> similar is true for the input devices).

A lot of distributions puts those modules in their initramfs and spawns
plymouthd in initramfs. So I think the
plymouthd startup units in systemd will not be much used by 
distributions (for booting, not shutdown). Am I wrong?

I tried launching plymouthd through systemd because on my system the
vconsole/plymouthd/setfont problem arises when plymouthd is started
before vconsole-setup. Then I've noticed that there are really a very
small interval between plymouth shows up and switches to DM.

But it seems that the things you've mentioned makes the reordering
difficult for now.

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