White background with OLPC logo

[Jordan Crouse]

On 05/06/07 11:28 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> > This hasn't a whelk's chance in a supernova of going upstream,
> 
> Why?  The bright color theme patch is nicely configurable
> and generally useful on any platform.

But its not - your patch just adds our specific scheme which is just as 
arbitrary and inflexible as the original scheme.   Unfortunately,
this is not a solution that scales very well for every Tom, Dick and
Harry that want the console colors to be their corporate color scheme
(Of course, I vote for AMD Green #007A51).

And that doesn't even get into the whole logo discussion - but needless
to say, if you were unwilling to post the logo here for fear of size,
then thats probably not something that Linus will willingly take into 
the kernel for us.

> > It's not
> > as if these machines should actually be rebooting
> > very often during normal operation anyway.
> 
> Hopefully, yes.  However, the boot sequence is the
> very first thing the user sees when they turn on the
> laptop for the first time.

And nearly everybody I have talked to agrees that they will
see some sort of splash screen all the way until Sugar loads.
How or why this will actually get done is a matter of some
discussion, but I think everybody can agree that in normal
operation that nobody will see the kernel boot process, nor 
the logo.

Oh - wait, you argue, what about the developers that want to
see debug messages?  I ask you - do we really need to carry around
many K of bytes so they can see a stylized logo and a white on
black screen during boot? I vote not.

> And if you have shown the laptop to some muggles,
> you'll surely noticed their expressions change
> when they see our 80's fashioned text console in
> an otherwise cute green laptop.
> 
> I always need to justify it with some excuse such as
> "err... this is to help us debugging the system,
> it's not really meant for the end user".

Exactly - so why is any of this even useful to the end user?

Jordan

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Jordan Crouse
Senior Linux Engineer
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
<www.amd.com/embeddedprocessors>