[OLPC-devel] Re: Minutes from System Software telecon, 2006-08-22

[Christopher Blizzard]

Jordan Crouse wrote:
> On 23/08/06 01:23 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>> By default the progress bar moves until its end, when a blank screen
>> welcomes the user for undetermined amount of time (being picky,
>> nevermind :)). Is that supposed to happen?
> 
> We go blank while the new kernel kexecs.  It probably wouldn't hurt to leave
> a gray screen up, since the video won't get reset until the kfb in the real 
> kernel starts.  ChrisB - your thoughts?

I'd like to get to the point where we have a glitch-free transition from 
startup to showing the interface.  Right now we don't have to get that 
perfect so leaving some debug stuff up is fine with me for now.

--Chris