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Mobile Boot Experience

Drawbacks of current system

* Random text * USplash begins with a stutter * X comes up with the plain/ugly "X" (grid) -bg color

• (just add -br to the Xorg startup call to get a plain black BG (see man Xserver))

Ideas for improvement

* Plain color over boot text * Same color with logo, then gdm * Start X earlier so GTK elements can be used during boot * Have kernel boot to a solid color when frame buffer is available * Monolythic kernel so boot speed to X start can be greatly reduced * Boot status bar of some kind to give user feedback during boot * If login process is needed, custom skins for gdm * Possible inclusion of the pending UME artwork/icon * Animated boot process * Boot process and theme matching so color schemes match * If you know the characteristics of the frame buffer you can zcat a raw image directly to it *

Complications/Roadblocks

* The difference between netbook and MID use of gdm (Not used in MID) * A solution that can easly scale across all devices that UME will be applied to. * Spacing the apps back/throttle the boot into stages so apps are not up all at once when X starts for boot * Kernel changes for parallel module loading may have to be backported to Hardy

Technical details

* If we know enough about the hardware, we can cat a uncompressed image to the frame buffer