From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.33) id 1BN7YZ-0004yE-Lz for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 05:58:43 -0400 Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BN7YX-0004xV-0A for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 05:58:41 -0400 Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BN7Y0-0004pG-42 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 05:58:40 -0400 Received: from [203.59.3.40] (helo=mail.iinet.net.au) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BN7Ee-0000Vv-6t for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 05:38:09 -0400 Received: (qmail 31813 invoked from network); 10 May 2004 09:38:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iinet.net.au) (203.217.77.211) by mail.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 10 May 2004 09:38:00 -0000 Message-ID: <409F4D86.80709@iinet.net.au> Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 19:38:14 +1000 From: James Buchanan User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Anyone working on graphics console for GRUB 2? X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:58:41 -0000 If someone has started on this, how will the graphics be done? Will it use a standalone SVGAlib, maybe a "generic" SVGA framebuffer, working to the VESA BIOS Extensions v3 or somesuch? The RedHat Grub screen is very nice. Not sure how they did it. Has a nice clean set of widgets. How would Unicode characters be drawn on the screen, would there be a lookup table of bitmap font outlines or something? -- James