linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] video/logo: allow custom boot logo and simplify logic

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Message-ID: <12a2ee5ca1a085fe0bd0c1b2d6e08589445cbf66.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:19:08 +0100
From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@...nel.org>, Helge Deller <deller@....de>, Greg
 Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Yoshinori Sato
 <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>, Rich Felker	 <dalias@...c.org>
Cc: linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] video/logo: allow custom boot logo and simplify
 logic

Hi Vincent,

On Tue, 2025-12-30 at 23:19 +0100, Vincent Mailhol wrote:
> This series allows the user to replace the default kernel boot logo by
> a custom one directly in the kernel configuration. This makes it
> easier to customise the boot logo without the need to modify the
> sources and allows such customisation to remain persistent after
> applying the configuration to another version of the kernel.

Wouldn't it make more sense to make the boot logo to be configurable
at runtime so that users don't have to rebuild their kernel at all
to change their boot logo?

Adrian

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