On 29 March 2012 16:58, Alexander Sack <asac@linaro.org> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 04:23:27PM +0530, Vishal Bhoj wrote:
> A better way to stop bootanimation is to add "debug.sf.nobootanimation=1"
> into system/build.prop  . This will take care of not starting/stopping the
> animation .I will push this into our builds and hopefully next daily builds
> should have the fix.

Is there a way to pass such system props through a kernel cmdline
magic in a debug build? In this way we can avoid hacking such tweaks
into the build, but rather enable testers etc. to do that on their
side...

 
I am not aware of any way to pass this through kernel cmdline to the system,It can be done by adding support for this feature. One way is to extend l-a-m-c tool to support adding system properties.The only alternative I see is the user himself runs "setprop debug.sf.nobootanimation 1" as soon as he reaches the console needs to be done at first boot only.

>
> On 29 March 2012 16:13, Chris Redpath <Chris.Redpath@arm.com> wrote:
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Dave Martin [mailto:dave.martin@linaro.org]
> > > Sent: 29 March 2012 11:31
> > > To: Chris Redpath
> > > Cc: linaro-android@lists.linaro.org; linaro-big-little@lists.linaro.org
> > > Subject: Re: [Linaro-big-little] Disabling the Android boot
> > > animation... ?
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Chris Redpath <Chris.Redpath@arm.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hi Dave,
> > > >
> > > > One way to hack it so it never starts is just to rename the
> > > bootanimation executable in /system/bin.
> > > >
> > > > I just tried it and my Android boots in a reported 2m or so, about 5
> > > minutes of real time. You get a line like this in the boot output but
> > > there are no apparent ill-effects.
> > > >
> > > > [   14.863680] init: cannot find '/system/bin/bootanimation',
> > > disabling 'bootanim'
> > >
> > > Hmmm, simple but effective...
> > >
> > > Thanks for the suggestion.
> > >
> > > ---Dave
> >
> > Incidentally, if you just remove the service definition you get a
> > notification from init each time something tries to start and stop the
> > service - so you can kind of see when boot starts and stops from the
> > output. I have no idea what is trying to start/stop bootanim though :)
> >
>
> > Chris
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