embedded bootup splash-screen solution

Question

I have an embedded system built with YoctoProject's poky (1.6.1) environment. I have a main application and it's using Qt for user interaction with a 7" touchscreen.

Now it's a bit "ugly" when the user turns on the device he has to wait 1-2 minutes and see how linux is booting up. To avoid this I installed psplash on my embedded system, that helps a bit, it's fading away linux bootup, but when we get the login prompt it exits.

Now I need a solution where the splashscreen is going to stay alive until my application is not ready to "get" the screen.

Do I need to modify psplash's source? (or any other splashscreen application) or maybe there is a general technique for this?

Answer 1

I recommend you to follow this link . I followed them and I can change splash screen, although I've used core-image-sato. Which image are you using?

To follow this steps, you have to convert your image in .h file. To do this step, you must download make-image-header.sh and do:

cp <your-image.jpg> your-image
./make-image-header.sh your-image POKY