Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:54:20 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash |
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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
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