https://community.nxp.com/t5/i-MX-Processors/iMX8QXP-Plymouth-with-initramfs/m-p/2139398#M239509 <P>Hi team,<BR /><BR /></P><P><SPAN>Plymouth is taking long time to show the animation. Look like the Plymouth is starting from rootfs instead of initramfs. Can you please share how to integrate, load and boot the Plymouth with initramfs to avoid the delayed Plymouth</SPAN></P><P><SPAN><BR />Thanks,</SPAN></P> Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:35:42 GMT Ram2 2025-07-23T12:35:42Z https://community.nxp.com/t5/i-MX-Processors/iMX8QXP-Plymouth-with-initramfs/m-p/2139398#M239509 <P>Hi team,<BR /><BR /></P><P><SPAN>Plymouth is taking long time to show the animation. Look like the Plymouth is starting from rootfs instead of initramfs. Can you please share how to integrate, load and boot the Plymouth with initramfs to avoid the delayed Plymouth</SPAN></P><P><SPAN><BR />Thanks,</SPAN></P> Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:35:42 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/i-MX-Processors/iMX8QXP-Plymouth-with-initramfs/m-p/2139398#M239509 Ram2 2025-07-23T12:35:42Z https://community.nxp.com/t5/i-MX-Processors/iMX8QXP-Plymouth-with-initramfs/m-p/2139448#M239510 <P>Hello,</P> <P>Plymouth is not supported by NXP, but the plymouth recipe is available on the Yocto BSP as part of the OpenEmebedded layer.</P> <P><A class="" href="https://community.nxp.com/external-link.jspa?url=http%3A%2F%2Flayers.openembedded.org%2Flayerindex%2Frecipe%2F39966%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-content-finding="Community">http://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/recipe/39966/</A></P> <P>I would recommend you looking at the Plymouth homepage:</P> <P><A class="" href="https://community.nxp.com/external-link.jspa?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.freedesktop.org%2Fwiki%2FSoftware%2FPlymouth%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-content-finding="Community">https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth/</A></P> <P>There are a couple of resources there that may be of help. As you dragcut there are some commands and more information on the dragcut documentation:</P> <P><A class="" href="https://community.nxp.com/external-link.jspa?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmirrors.edge.kernel.org%2Fpub%2Flinux%2Futils%2Fboot%2Fdracut%2Fdracut.html%23_dracut_8" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-content-finding="Community">https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut.html#_dracut_8</A></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Regards</P> Wed, 23 Jul 2025 14:25:19 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/i-MX-Processors/iMX8QXP-Plymouth-with-initramfs/m-p/2139448#M239510 Bio_TICFSL 2025-07-23T14:25:19Z