boot time reduction - early PIN request

[Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri]

On Feb 17, 2008 7:16 PM, Robert Schuster <r.schuster at tarent.de> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) schrieb:
> > 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) :)
> We have a framebuffer and /dev/mice, isn't that enough?
>
> Put an image into /dev/fb0 and read mouseclicks from /dev/mice, update
> the display with some asterisks, add a very simple animation for the
> button presses.

raster said:
"""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) :)"""

so this is already answered... you're proposing we should reinvent the
well (or add some other library that does, like ecore-fb, suggested by
mike).

Also, bear in mind that you oversimplifying a task, like in this case
a GUI operation, doesn't help... if adopted can cause problems in
future... remember that a compiler is "just convert some text to
binary commands" and a kernel is "just a program to abstract hardware
access"... :-(

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