[OLPC-devel] Re: I tested the new graphical interface in buildrom

[Jordan Crouse]

On 30/07/06 12:40 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> >Progress bars in Linux startup are generally useless because startup is
> >such a shellscript mess that you cannot get useful status information
> >out of anything.
> 
> yeah, I like spinning beachballs even less than progress bars :-)
> 
> but this GUI stuff is out of my pay grade :-)

You and me both, brother. :)

Chris Blizzard had pointed me earlier to a "storyboard" of the OSX boot
process (what is happening on the screen and the correlating behavior of
the OS behind it).  I think that we need something similar for our boot
process (in fact - not just the ROM but all the way to the userland).

Jordan

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Jordan Crouse
Senior Linux Engineer
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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