newcons splash screen

[Juan Ramón Molina Menor]

> Hello,
> is it possible to use a splash screen yet with newcons? I've been looking at the source code for VT, and it would appear there has been some work done towards this?
>
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/sys/dev/vt/vt.h  
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> Also the wiki page shows limited support:
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> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons  
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> I've tried the standard method of enabling a splash screen but it of course does not work. I don't think I was able to get it to work with syscons either whereas it used to work.
>
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/boot-splash.html  
>
> Is there another way? Or is it still not ready yet?
>
> Joe Maloney
Hi!

Maybe you are already aware of it, but in 2014 there was a Google Summer 
of Code project on improving the bootsplash:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014/Bootsplash

It worked well with sc(4), but I don’t know wether it applies to vt(4)…

Juan