Re: grub-mkconfig fails on every non i386-pc because of gfxterm/vbe

[Michal Suchanek]

2009/8/21 Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden>:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Pavel Roskin<address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 17:18 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
>>
>>> The eye candy is nice but not so important.  For me, gfxterm should be
>>> default on platforms where it's available, because it implements UTF-8,
>>> which is necessary to support l10n.
>>
>> Fine with me.   Just please don't rely on existence of modules.
> gfxterm is currently slow and may account for sluggish user experience
> (just type lsmod in qemu with grub-mkrescue image in gfxterm mode). I
> have few patches to optimise it a bit. (like faster font blitting)

Slow performance in qemu should not be deciding factor for features
that are enabled in release binaries.

However, displaying some logo in graphics mode so that people realize
they are in fact seeing graphics might help.

Thanks

Michal