cursplash
curplash is a curses based boot splash with progress bar. Not all systems support a framebuffer, but all do support curses! So, we have this little application.
It ships with an OpenRC plugin with Gentoo theme and a VT splash helper for the Linux kernel to call. The kernel will require a patch (2.6.26 found in the patches dir) to call the helper early in the boot process, otherwise OpenRC will splash as soon as it can.
