Text-Free Boot
Make sure the boot process is completely text and flicker free.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Sebastien Bacher
- Priority:
- High
- Drafter:
- Robert Ancell
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Robert Ancell
- Definition:
- Obsolete
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Not started
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
- Robert Ancell
Related branches
Whiteboard
Work items:
[vorlon] (or apw) Fix flicker between grub and plymouth: TODO
[vorlon] Investigate Plymouth is recording the log information it should: TODO
[robert-ancell] Fix flash on unity greeter start: TODO
[robert-ancell] Make LightDM clear console before X server starts, and before X server exits (so no text displayed when switching X servers): TODO
[robert-ancell] (and RAOF) arrange for lightdm and X to hand the console back in graphics mode in KMS case and make lightdm responsible for setting the VT back to a sane mode when it exits: TODO
Other items, not assigned?
consider server boots/ add method for changing grub behavior via configuration without grub upgrade prompt
Change pm-utils to set the kernel loglevel to KERN_EMERG before suspending, and restore on resume
Architecture document: https:/
pitti, 2012-02-07: Too close to feature freeze, and not much going on with this, moving to Q series. -- Actually, reconsidering; much of it are relatively simple bug fixes.
pitti, 2012-02-28: Moving to Q series for good now.
robert-ancell, 2012-05-15: Marking as obsolete - the system compositor is our solution fo this (https:/
