boot time reduction - early PIN request

[Kevin Dean]

And the amount of work needed to make boot time "a little less boring"
that would have absolutely no effect for those who don't have to enter
a PIN in the first place. Just sayin'.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
<mickey at openmoko.org> wrote:
> On Friday 15 February 2008 04:03:20 Carsten Haitzler wrote:
>  > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:50:31 +0100 Robert Schuster <r.schuster at tarent.de>
>  >
>  > babbled:
>  > > Hi,
>  > > you recently had a discussion on this list to reduce the boot time and I
>  > > have a suggestion for this:
>  > >
>  > > If possible the phone should ask for my GSM pin number (if SIM card is
>  > > in) while running the initialization scripts in the background and
>  > > (perhaps) should not let me into X before the number has not been
>  > > entered.
>  >
>  > and how do you propose to display the dialog, request and on-screen
>  > keyboard as well as handle input... without x? :) (other than
>  > re-implementing it all) :)
>
>  Funny that _you_ are asking that... ever heard about ecore-fb? ;)
>
>  On topic though, making it mandatory to ask for PIN before launching the UI
>  introduces a number of problems, e.g. how about Flight mode, or PDA mode?
>
>  :M:
>
>