Dear Simon Glass, In message <CAPnjgZ3rNhvL98JEOPV=90u-Wr3iEqs8QgqYaz=boohrfrj...@mail.gmail.com> you wrote: > > The problem is that a major purpose of the GUIs is to allow installing > an OS from a USB stick/SD card, since the OS may have become corrupted > and unbootable. We have looked at keeping around a separate OS image > for this (e.g. in an available disk partition), but so far that hasn't > proved practical since that itself can be fairly easily overwritten > and we then have a doorstop. > > The less fancy, the better, but consumers have certain expectations > that force us to make some efforts...there is already a single font in > U-Boot, but it's not good enough for multi-language pretty displays > unfortunately.
Why don't you load and start a small recovery system from the USB stick then? I don't see why you need a GUI to do that. This could be mostly made automatic. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. - Ambrose Bierce _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot