Another Solar Update & remaining F10 release tasks (volunteers needed!)

[Gian Paolo Mureddu]

Nicu Buculei escribió:
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> And I think it will work only on select AMD graphic cards.

I think it is actually AMD and Intel graphics cards which support this 
(AFAIK mode setting was recently added to the ati driver, and it has 
been present for a longer time (since F9) on the Intel driver. Support 
is driver dependent rather than "hardware" dependent, but yeah, only a 
couple drivers currently support it.

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>> now we can have consistent look from very first time of boot to desktop.
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> I think we have at last one mode change, from GRUB to Plymouth (that 
> is, on supported cards).
The way I understand this, is that there actually is a change from text 
(in end Grub uses the same graphics capabilities as the BIOS) to the 
kernel mode setting when the kernel loads (and before the rest of the 
services start), currently in any Fedora release you can somewhat see 
this "transition" if you set a VGA accelerated mode as a command line 
argument (such as vga=791 in F1 - F8 or vga=823 in F9, which causes the 
kernel to use a framebuffer of 1024x768 in size at 16-bit color depth), 
there is a brief print-out of the GRUB arguments for the selected while 
the kernel loads before you are presented with the graphics (the 
penguin(s) at the top-left corner) and smoother letters, bigger size, 
etc. I'm not all that familiar with GRUB2 and if would require the same 
kind of drivers as the mode setting feature of the kernel. My guess 
would be it wouldn't since it'd be running prior any kernel (and hence 
drivers) are loaded, so it may very well rely only on the VESA 
capabilities of the cards, but again, I don't know for certain... Will 
have to take a look.