> Von: Ray Strode > >> This is an interesting idea, but I don't think plymouth makes it any > >> easier to display CJK & Indic glyphs. (Please someone more technical > >> tell me if I'm wrong here, I vaguely remember this being an issue when > >> we wanted to add a messagse to fedup) > > > > I hoped that it would be easier to localize plymouth compared to grub2. In > > addition to that we'd also get rid of problems resulting of the > > interaction between grub2 s gfx stack and the kernel/plymouth, and last but > > not least we wouldn't need to maintain a theme for grub. > Yea it's not really easier. We start plymouth in the initrd, and we > don't have fonts, translations, font rendering libraries or anything > in the initrd. we could ship those things in the initrd but it would > make the initrd substantially larger. I see. I don't think that we want to pull all that stuff into initrd. > Of course we can do localized text fine on systems that don't have > initrds, or at later points in the boot process after we've switched > out of the initrd. What I could think of is providing the necessary strings as bitmaps or - following your note - that we populate the screen after the switch form initrd. I'd say that the whole boot process is fine to display any boot related message. The only case I can think of which doesn't fit into this idea, is a non-booting kernel - because of an incorrect cmdline or because the kernel has a problem. - fabian -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
