Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263145AbVCJVUz (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:20:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263147AbVCJVUz (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:20:55 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:61134 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263145AbVCJVUk (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:20:40 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:54:20 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Alan Cox , James Simmons , Linux Frame Buffer Device Development , Michal Januszewski , Linux Kernel Development , "Antonino A. Daplas" Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1140 Lines: 29 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/