Comment 6 for bug 285218

Interesting thread in the upstream cbe-oss-dev list sort of shows something has changed in the ps3fb since the 2.50 firmware update. Apparently the ps3vram driver no longer works and hangs machine:

http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/cbe-oss-dev/2008-October/005735.html

So will not rule out the affects of this firmware upgrade on usplash, need to dig into the usplash code to try and see where the failure occurs.