linux-kernel - Re: NAK nettiquete (was Re: "Re: [PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2)"

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710080102210.16301@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Mon, 8 Oct 2007 01:09:14 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
Subject: Re: NAK nettiquete (was Re: "Re: [PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output
 (run2)"


On Oct 7 2007 17:23, Alan Cox wrote:
>
>>>- If you want to do "pretty" boot up you do it in X or frame buffer
>>>(which is going to get easier and easier with the X shift to kernel side
>>>video support)
>> 
>> fb is slow. Feels like a 9600bps serial line.
>
>So fix your fb. There is enough information to cover 2D scrolling for
>most modern cards now.
>
>> Let everyone have his own fun.
>
>The point isn't to put everyones "fun" into the kernel, or by now it
>would have become a steaming heap.

We do have a steaming heap of obscure hardware drivers, actually.
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