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

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Message-ID: <20071007172306.1ca662fd@the-village.bc.nu>
Date:	Sun, 7 Oct 2007 17:23:06 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
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>,
	Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1 <Emilian.Medve@...escale.com>,
	Helge Deller <deller@....de>
Subject: Re: NAK nettiquete (was Re: "Re: [PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output
 (run2)"

> >- 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.

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