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DRM Splash Screen Updated To Simply Drawing A Colored Background, Displaying A BMP Image (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 4 days ago by cm0002@literature.cafe to c/linux@programming.dev

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Back in October was an initial proposal for a DRM splash screen client for the Linux kernel that would be primarily useful for embedded systems for rendering a simple "splash screen" when updating the system firmware/software, early display activation at boot, during system recovery, or similar processes. Sent out today was a second revision to the DRM splash screen code.

There is already Plymouth as a great boot splash screen solution for Linux systems while this DRM splash screen primarily aims to fill different niches mainly in the embedded space when needing to display a simple graphic or similar. Stemming from objections raised during the original round of code review, user-driven functionality like configurable messages and a progress bar was dropped from this proposed code. Those solutions are best off left to user-space tooling.

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

to render stuff?

[–] Tja@programming.dev 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We originally understood DRM as digital rights management, hence the confusion...

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 3 days ago

Yeah, that happens.
There's a third 'DRM' now, in this space which I recently read about. Although I forget what it was.