Bootsplash Patch for 2.6.5 Kernel

Kow · Apprentice Joined: 28 Dec 2003 Posts: 227

Bootsplash Patch for 2.6.5-rc1:
*May or may not work on newer kernel source trees(at the time of this thread this was the latest)
*This is not an official Gentoo patch

http://home.comcast.net/~kd.drake/bootsplash-3.1.3-2.6.5-r1.patch
or if you'd rather have a bzip2 version:
http://24.118.29.210/files/bootsplash-3.1.3-2.6.5-r1.patch.bz2

I did this because the latest patch in the ebuild tree is 2.6.3-rc1 and the corresponding patch is rejecting fbcon.c, so I put this one together.

Note: I did test it, and it runs flawlessly.

Instructions:
1. You will have to right click --> Save
2. Prepare the kernel source tree (needs 2.6.5-rc1 original source). Meaning no gentoo patchsets (it might work but it would be risky).
3. CD into the directory
4. Run patch -p1 < path/to/bootsplash-3.1.3-2.6.5-r1.patch
or if using bz2 version:
Run bzip2 -dc path/to/bootsplash-3.1.3-2.6.5-r1.patch | patch -p1
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paulisdead · Guru Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 510 Location: Seattle, WA

Works perfectly, thanks.
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YopWongSapn · l33t Joined: 26 Jan 2004 Posts: 627

FYI.....
The newer emerge version(s) of bootsplash come with bootsplash_patch that you can run to patch the kernel without downloading the patch elsewhere.

Kow · Apprentice Joined: 28 Dec 2003 Posts: 227

The latest bootsplash ebuild does not have a bootsplash patch that will work for 2.6.5.. the latest is the 2.6.3-r1.patch.bz2 which will not patch fbcon.c because of changes.....

*
* Patching the kernel (branch: 2.6) in /usr/src/linux ...
*
patching file drivers/char/keyboard.c
patching file drivers/char/n_tty.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 994 (offset 25 lines).
patching file drivers/char/vt.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 3143 (offset 35 lines).
patching file drivers/video/bootsplash/bootsplash.c
patching file drivers/video/bootsplash/bootsplash.h
patching file drivers/video/bootsplash/decode-jpg.c
patching file drivers/video/bootsplash/decode-jpg.h
patching file drivers/video/bootsplash/Kconfig
patching file drivers/video/bootsplash/Makefile
patching file drivers/video/bootsplash/render.c
patching file drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
Hunk #3 succeeded at 413 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #4 succeeded at 437 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #5 succeeded at 467 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #6 succeeded at 503 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #7 succeeded at 535 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #8 succeeded at 822 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #9 succeeded at 905 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #10 succeeded at 1083 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #11 succeeded at 1164 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #12 succeeded at 1474 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #13 succeeded at 1545 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #14 succeeded at 1674 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #15 succeeded at 1721 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #16 succeeded at 1808 (offset 10 lines).
Hunk #17 succeeded at 1990 (offset 10 lines).
Hunk #18 FAILED at 2448.
1 out of 18 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/video/console/fbcon.c.rej
patching file drivers/video/console/fbcon.h
patching file drivers/video/Kconfig
Hunk #1 succeeded at 909 (offset -13 lines).
patching file drivers/video/Makefile
patching file drivers/video/vesafb.c
patching file include/linux/console_struct.h
patching file include/linux/fb.h
Hunk #1 succeeded at 525 with fuzz 1 (offset 55 lines).
patching file kernel/panic.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 82 (offset -1 lines).
Hunk #2 succeeded at 111 (offset -1 lines).

!!! ERROR: media-gfx/bootsplash-0.6-r9 failed.
!!! Function pkg_config, Line 150, Exitcode 1
!!! (no error message)

Hence no it does not.

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dsd · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 3:58 pm Post subject: 2.6.5-rc2-mm1

Heres one for 2.6.5-rc2-mm1 - Kow's previous patch didnt apply against this kernel - and after a manual rediff i had to change a little bit of the code to get it to work (see notes at top of patch for more info)

http://www.reactivated.net/patches/linux-kernel/2.6.5/bootsplash-3.1.3-2.6.5-rc2-mm1.patch

tested and working.
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Cicero · Apprentice Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 220

Patches clean here, but could someone make one for 3.1.4?

Despite it not being on bootspash.org, 3.1.4 can be found in the same place on the ftp server as 3.1.3:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/stepan/bootsplash/kernel/bootsplash-3.1.4-2.6.3.diff

Godvalve · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2003 Posts: 34 Location: Canada

dsd · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 8:25 pm Post subject: Re: 2.6.5-rc2-mm1

nx12 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 193

This patch is just an update or has some new features??
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dsd · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject:

it appears to have a couple of minor bugfixes plus some improved buffer management

here's a diff of 3.1.4 against 2.6.5-rc2-mm1
again, i had to update the code a little (the same way as in the last patch)

tested by me, working

http://www.reactivated.net/patches/linux-kernel/2.6.5/bootsplash-3.1.4-2.6.5-rc2-mm1.patch
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Godvalve · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2003 Posts: 34 Location: Canada

Kow · Apprentice Joined: 28 Dec 2003 Posts: 227

When I originally did it I was using the latest bootsplash version in gentoo's portage tree, I didn't want to go into developer (or unofficial) versions and have people think they were somewhat official, I see a new bootsplash release in my portage tree, and they're using 3.1.4 now.

EDIT: Release 12 at the time I wrote this is still arch masked I believe. The current official does not have the 2.6.5's in them (as 2.6.5 isn't technically official either).

I do not think it's worthwhile for them to keep making patches for all these minor versions, When it comes to the 2.6.5 solid release they'll prolly get a patch for that and the solid mm source patch.

If you know how to create patches and manually put code into the kernel source tree (which you have to do before you create the patch) and want to spend the time doing it, I'd personally say go for it. But if you do not want to monkey around with it, and really love bootsplash, i'd just go 2.6.3 --> 2.6.4 --> 2.6.5 --> 2.6.6.. etc and skip the inbetween, which could be quite buggy versions.
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keli · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 8:30 am Post subject:

keli · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 9:08 am Post subject:

And, we have a winner!!!

The patch works flawlessly, and I have a properly working system again

Since mm-sources-2.6.5 came out, I had a sort-of broken framebuffer - the machine froze every time I wanted to switch back from X to fb console. (even though at startup, before entering X, the fb bootsplash/console worked just fine )

Muchos gracias!

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Godvalve · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2003 Posts: 34 Location: Canada

aminal · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 12:06 am Post subject:

I'm about to compile 2.6.5-rc2-mm3 and I'd like to put the mm patch in so I dont have to turn around and compile again. once I DL it, where do I put it? (I've never patched a kernel before)

thanks!

aminal · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 12:59 am Post subject:

??? I'm trying to wait for an answer before compiling

aminal · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 1:26 am Post subject:

ok - I know I have to do

patch -p0 < file.patch

BUt then it asks what file to patch. I don't know what I'm sposed to put

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markedmann · n00b Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 18

Isn't that supposed to be

aminal · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 3:03 am Post subject:

Well the patch was in the same directory I was in so, not in this case, I dont think.

Thanks though

Evil Dark Archon · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 3:44 am Post subject:

for kernel patches the standard is patch -p1 and that seems to also be the case here.
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aminal · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 4:28 am Post subject:

Kow · Apprentice Joined: 28 Dec 2003 Posts: 227

Make sure you run the patch from within the kernel source directory... ie

aminal · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 4:54 am Post subject:

keli · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 7:07 am Post subject:

Well, here's what I did:

1) emerged 2.6.5-rc2-mm2 (this practically unpacks it to /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-rc2-mm2, nothing more)
2) I downloaded the rc2-mm1 patch mentioned above
3) I did a search & replace from rc2-mm1 to rc2-mm2 in the patch, although that shouldn't be necessary
4) point the symlink /usr/src/linux to the new kernel dir
5) cd /usr/src/linux
6) patch -p1 < /path/to/downloaded patch (the -p1 should take care of exactly that AFAIK: removing the first dir name in the oatch - in this case the "linux-2.6.5-whatever" since you are in that dir anyway.)
7) copy old config file to /usr/src/linux/.config

make menuconfig - just for a quick check although I didn't had to change anything (I used bootsplash before as well, but if you didn't check out this therad: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=49036 )
9) make && make modules_install
10) make install
11) fix the grub.conf & restart

That's about it

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