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Even if you manage to boot U-Boot and Linux into a graphical user application withing less than 5 or 6 sdeconds after power-on (which is not difficult) many customers expect to see "something" immediately. U-Boot supports the concept of a spash screen for such purposes.

To enable splash screen support you have to add a "#define CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN" to your board configuration file. This will implicitely enable U-Boot Bitmap Support.