boot time reduction - early PIN request

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

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) :)

> Of course this does not really shorten the boot time but at least I (or
> the user) has something to do while it starts and this reduces the
> perceived waiting time.
> 
> Just me 0.02€ cents. :)
> 
> Regards
> Robert
> 
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