On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 04:37:55PM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote:
Yes, but who wants to see a text console on their brand new pda, embedded pc, or carpc? I personally like text console as well, but gotta think about end users too. Bootsplash should be an option, IMO, but I don't much care for the idea of a bios setup option, it would take up too much space and be too much of a hassle to deal with. LinuxBIOS is not Award/Phoenix/AMI BIOS, and shouldn't have to emulate them. When LinuxBIOS is used in embedded products, it should never need to have any setup options changed. If it's used on a desktop system, lxbios should be available, and there should be a fallback option in place should something go wrong, such as a payload for booting from USB, etc. Just my 2 cents.
When things are working well, one shouldn't have time to notice a VGA console. It's when things aren't working well when you're really really glad that the "nasty", "old" vga console is there.
Really, what is this drive for GUIs. What's wrong with a nice command line utility.
<snip> > X.org driver developer.
Please tell me I'm not the only one who finds this ironic :p
-Corey
I've been fighting VBE for years. Which is why my driver was so happy with plain linuxbios. I'm not about to start a direct VBE replacement, it only makes driver developers lazy.
Luc Verhaegen.