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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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[–] Tja@programming.dev 17 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I was so confused by the term DRM for a moment...

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Writing an article about something and using only acronyms/initialisms without first defining them is just terrible writing.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The company we sell software for uses way too many acronyms. They also send out training registry emails, and I think nobody signs up because they don't know what the acronym is referring to.

I.e Email:

Dear BlahBlah, Register for our DLMX webinar focused in FOH. There's new LMT coming this year.

Me: Delete

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

The overlap irritates the hell out of me. The context is usually close enough to make it confusing as hell for a while.

[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Same, why the hell would we want DRMs in linux ?

[–] 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.