Re: The new X-Kernel !

["Malcolm H. Teas" <mhteas@btech.com>]

Tim Jansen wrote:

> On Sunday 21 October 2001 09:37, Gábor Lénárt wrote:
> 
>>moved into kernel space :) IMHO it's strictly user space issue. You can
>>start X or gdm/xdm/kdm from a boot script and so on. No kernel modification
>>is needed for this.
>>
> 
> But what the kernel COULD do is include something like the Linux Progress 
> Patch (http://lpp.freelords.org/). It replaces the text output of the kernel 
> with graphics and a progress bar, so people are not frightened by cryptic 
> text output while booting.


But what graphics resources does the LPP require?  If it's more restricted than 
the current Linux boot process it affects server-oriented machines that aren't 
running X or graphics, that just serve resources on the net.

I'd not like to see the minimum bar for hardware compatibility raised without 
very good cause.  Boot time messages aren't a good cause for me. YMMV.

My feeling: At best it should be an option only, and default to no LPP.

-Malcolm Teas