Plan for tomorrows (20070802) FESCO meeting

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Aug 2 00:14:39 UTC 2007


Mark wrote:
> 2007/8/1, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>:
>> Better startup still requires more mode setting work on kernel upstream
>> afaik.
> 
> Your kidding right?
> Ubuntu is doing it so it most be possible for fedora to do it as well.
> if not than why?

They are not comparable features at the implementation level. Read the 
spec and some of the references to understand why. Here are some details

http://keithp.com/blog/kernel-mode-drivers.html

Fedora also is unlikely to differ much from upstream in these instances. 
     So things like bootsplash are not a option.

Rahul





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