Paralell startup

[Daniel Veillard]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 08:10:15PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> You could imagine for example that rhgb is only a "view" that doesn't
> have any interaction with or entanglement with the actual boot process,
> it just watches events about boot progress and displays them. I don't
> know how close that is to true already, but it might be a nice

  Well communication goes both ways for example to be able to get user
input in kudzu.

> situation. For that matter, maybe rhgb could just become part of gdm, if
> we can get gdm launched early enough instead of at the end. Just
> speculating.

  I don't think we can completely merge both but, integrating part of gdm
functionalities within rhgb, for example to allow login before the boot 
finishes is one of the future improvement.
  I plan to write down within a couple of weeks how I would like rhgb to
improve and evolve. Parallel startup is only one of the aspects of getting
a shorter and smoother "time to session from boot" which is IMHO the real
design goal.

Daniel

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