Re: rhgb no more

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:35:51PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> Yeah, all we really need to do is stick an appropriate graphic up on the
> screen and _maybe_ render some text to describe which partition is being
> unlocked.  But there shouldn't be any need for a widget toolkit

VGAfb and the bogl library is quite sufficient for this. Historically it
has been used for things like non ascii text consoles on some systems but
it and/or nano-gui will do the job, and unlike the X server won't crash and
burn on some older cards.