From: Stephen Early <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Graphics mode support
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 13:49:14 +0000 (GMT)
> GGI assumes a reasonably Unix-like environment. The systems I work
> with (like many current research operating systems) are generally not
> even slightly Unix-like. Some of them aren't even written in C, and
> don't support a C runtime environment.
If your OS cannot make use of existing drivers written in C, you
have to write many, many drivers as well as graphics drivers - IMO,
that's a fault.
> The netboot support isn't complete, of course - not that I'm
> complaining.
Complain of it! I want to fix/enhance it soon, but I haven't heard
from Hisazumi for a while... So I wanna complain of it, too. :(
> Supporting a serial console should be possible, but is
> complicated by GRUB's use of full-screen menus.
If we can assume that the user will use an ANSI-compliant terminal,
there's no problem.
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