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. -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
