From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:54:20 +0100 Message-ID: <20050310145419.GD632@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: <20050308015731.GA26249@spock.one.pl> <200503091301.15832.adaplas@hotpop.com> <9e473391050308220218cc26a3@mail.gmail.com> <1110392212.3116.215.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1110408049.9942.275.camel@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1D9V5H-0005Dj-83 for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:20:43 -0800 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123] ident=postfix) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1D9V5F-0004s7-OX for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:20:43 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Alan Cox , James Simmons , Linux Frame Buffer Device Development , Michal Januszewski , Linux Kernel Development , "Antonino A. Daplas" Hi! > > > Thank you. We need some kind of basic console in the kernel. I'm not the > > > biggest fan of eye candy. So moving the console to userspace for eye candy > > > is a dumb idea. > > > > Thats why moving the eye candy console into user space is such a good > > idea. You don't have to run it 8) It also means that the console > > development is accessible to all the crazy rasterman types. > > Yep. The basic console we already have. Everyone who wants eye candy can switch > from basic console to user space console in early userspace. > Heh, I'm afraid it does not work like that. Anyone who wants eye-candy simply applies broken patch to their kernel... unless their distribution applied one already. Situation where we have one working eye-candy patch would certainly be an improvement. Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click