So really the question as to why we don’t use Plymouth is the same as to why we don’t use usplash. We did actually consider replacing usplash with Plymouth since the implementation is rather cleaner, but Plymouth only supports Kernel Mode Setting drivers whereas usplash has a fall-back SVGA mode (it always had framebuffer support, thus KMS support, due to the Ubuntu PowerPC port).
[^] # Re: KMS / Xspash
Posté par gnumdk (site web personnel) . En réponse à la dépêche Sortie d'Ubuntu 9.10 : Karmic Koala. Évalué à 4.
So really the question as to why we don’t use Plymouth is the same as to why we don’t use usplash. We did actually consider replacing usplash with Plymouth since the implementation is rather cleaner, but Plymouth only supports Kernel Mode Setting drivers whereas usplash has a fall-back SVGA mode (it always had framebuffer support, thus KMS support, due to the Ubuntu PowerPC port).