[draft] Add a boot animation system

[BarryLhm]

It's the time for Chimera Linux to get a boot animation system.

Possible solutions:

• plymouth, using kms and drm, graphics driver is needed to load first.

[BarryLhm]

If grub has set the display to the highest mode, kernel will start with a full-resolution console and kernel modesetting is unneeded,
so it can start before graphics drivers were loaded.

[robertek]

I don't think creating new boot animation system is a way to go. It is much more complex then only showing an image. For example it needs to support console interaction (password entry).

To be honest I'm missing the old bootsplash kernel implementation, which allowed general console theming, not only the boot part. But this is long gone and I do not see anyone preparing something like that again.

The plymouth is probably the easiest way to implement.
There are couple of things that needs to be incorporated atop of the upstream plymouth.

1. initramfs-tools helpers. Debian has them implemented and with some modification it may be probably included. With this, you may have it working in a dumb way (just display boot animation, without any progress or interaction). See [1].
2. implemet dinit services to notify plymouth about the current progress. See the systemd units in [2].
3. And the final thing is to implement support for possible console interaction to current boot scripts. For example the zfs load-key -a would need that (but there will be others). I had this implemented in my simple init script I used time ago, see [3].

References

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/plymouth/-/tree/debian/debian/local?ref_type=heads
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/plymouth/-/tree/debian/systemd-units?ref_type=heads
[3] https://github.com/robertek/root-scripts/blob/master/init.tpl#L68