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.

  • scutiger@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

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

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      2 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