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| 2026-05-07 |
postmarketOS changes the boot splash screen |
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The postmarketOS project is making a change to the mobile distribution's boot process which should make displaying the splash screen more flexible while also reducing the maintenance work involved. "We've been working on improving the boot splash screen experience in postmarketOS for a while now, and we're happy to share that we've switched from pbsplash to Plymouth. Plymouth is widely used across many Linux distributions and is a big improvement over pbsplash.
pbsplash didn't use DRM, so display rotation wasn't supported. It also had to be killed and restarted every time the displayed message changed, which was messy to handle in the initramfs and caused graphical flickering. On top of that, we had to maintain custom systemd units and workarounds that still had rough edges. Plymouth solves all of this and integrates cleanly with systemd and OpenRC out of the box, reducing our maintenance burden significantly.
A nice new feature is the ability to toggle the splash at runtime by pressing Esc on devices with a keyboard, or the power button on phones and tablets. With pbsplash, seeing the console required modifying the kernel cmdline and rebooting, which on some devices meant reflashing a boot image." Additional details on this change can be found in the project's blog post.
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