Boot/reboot/shutdown splash screen

[agherzan]

From @agherzan on February 12, 2016 14:58

Steps to reproduce issue

Connect to the HDMI connected to a monitor
Boot the device

Expected result

Resin logo splash screen should be visible

Actual result

RaspberryPi: No splash screen at boot

Other information

Reported by: Andrei Gherzan

Test configuration: RaspberryPi

Test case number: TC07

Test run: https://resinio.testlodge.com/projects/16238/runs/192879?tab=2&run_section_id=168778&executed_case_id=9333888#executed_case_9333888

Copied from original issue: balena-os/balena-raspberrypi#1

[agherzan]

From @telphan on March 4, 2016 13:59

Is this issue present on Raspberrypi or Raspberrypi2?

[agherzan]

Rpi1

[agherzan]

From @telphan on March 4, 2016 14:14

Well, this is not exactly a bug. The reason for the splash not showing on rpi1 is slow hardware. It takes too long to show the splash. Therefore the boot finishes before plymouth has a chance of showing splash.

[agherzan]

Yes. We are aware of this but maybe we could optimize boot to inject the splash service sooner in the boot seq services?

[agherzan]

From @telphan on March 4, 2016 14:19

There is only one way that springs to mind, but that involves making use of an initramfs.

[agherzan]

From @lurch on October 12, 2016 11:43

The new version of Raspbian includes a splashscreen, maybe there's code you can borrow from there?

[agherzan]

Sounds interesting. We will take a look on this.