Werner Almesberger wrote: ... > The problem: when we start, we go through a fairly long sequence of > different screens: > > 1) initial darkness while u-boot is gathering its powers > 2) the boot splash screen > 3) a bit of kernel text console > 4) the boots with progress bar (exquisite) > 5) some more kernel text console > 6) the boots with the green thingy bouncing left and right > (enlightenment initialization, under X11) > 7) finally the GUI > > It's 5) that Will doesn't like.
Some day, one day, it'll be good to have the boot stuff go to a snazzy graphic that just becomes the phone, just like all the other common old phones on the market right now. But I think that perhaps the most efficient use of time would be to fix some of what you describe so aptly as the "rotting fish in the pond" :) So why not just turn off 4)? We're all geeks here, we all know what a booting kernel console looks like (the non-geeks have all long ago put the FR in a desk drawer somewhere). (The pretty little pictures annoy me intensely; it's infuriating to think that somebody somewhere is wasting valuable time playing with graphics for a phone that can't reliably make phone calls yet!) Mike (mwester) _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
