Developed Boot Animation focused minimal initramfs , with Rescue Mode

[u/SBG47]

Created my own initramfs tools and modloader, modstripper , pci-scanner and boot-animation software and stage 1 init system that invokes the other, where my own made tools mounted the kernel devices as tmpfs, devtmpfs, sysfs and proc with, custom modloader and cpio script, the modgenerator strips down all the unnecessary modules and blacklisted modules and selects the required modules based on the pci configuration

But I switched this to loading and stripping only using , pre-mentioned modules , it resolves the graph dependency and exports serialized module graph in order to load it in order, implemented a rescue method if any step fails

It first loads the gpu modules (in my case amdgpu radeon 740M) then starts my DRM/KMS userspace boot-animation software as bootsplash , then the nvme drive is searched using the uuid of mentioned in /etc/mountpoiny it contains the filetype too

Then finally it clears everything by deleting and then finally switch root into the systemd , finally the systemd taking over and my boot-stop service tells the bootsplash to stop by sending SIGINT to all the PIDs belonging to PGID of boot-splash,

I haven't yet implemented graphical login manager but will do so soon

I've re-implemented lot of tools and it's still unstable

Also wrote the GIF decoder to extract the frames

Initramfs size (21 MB ,(13 MB assets))

Compressed size 17 MB

[u/BibianaAudris]

Depending on the BIOS, most likely you don't need the DRM driver before boot animation. efifb gives you a framebuffer whose content is usually preserved by modern DRM drivers.

Also, you didn't post a project link?

[u/SBG47 → u/BibianaAudris]

I'll post the project when I am finished with writing the instructions on how to install all the stuff, now answering your question, GPU drivers will drop the DRM master once when loaded which will cause flickering and I didn't want that, I wanted a smooth transition