Yesterday I were bored. So I took the linux sources and I began think­ing at some inter­est­ing modify I could make.

So, ehm, well… I did some­thing unusual. I’m proud to present the really-very-most-useless-patch-of-the-year:

Add a boot option “logonum” that allow the user to choose how many pen­guins to show in the frame­buffer at startup. If no “logonum” is spec­i­fied, it shows as many pen­guins as the online cpus (the default behavior).

Signed-off-by: Giu­liani Vito, Ivan <giuliani.v@gmail.com>

The patch can be found here: http://lugbari.org/~kratorius/patches/give-me-more-penguins-2.6.19.patch
This patch applies to 2.6.19 vanilla sources.

Com­pile your kernel with this patch and modify your grub’s menu.lst file in this way, from some­thing like this: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.19 root=/dev/hda6 ro vga=0x318 to to some­thing like this: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.19 root=/dev/hda6 ro vga=0x318 logonum=5 to show 5 pen­guins. If you don’t tell to grub how many pen­guins to show, it will use the default behav­ior (it will show as many pen­guins as your online cpus).

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