CFT: Graphics support for /boot/loader

[Lars Engels]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 02:35:02PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> 
> Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>  > Oliver Fromme wrote:
>  > > You can easily replace the background image, it's a
>  > > standard PCX image file.  You can even re-arrange the
>  > > position of the menu if necessary; there are simple
>  > > variable settings for that in the theme.conf file.
>  > 
>  > What about the actual menu items, are they configurable too (e.g. when  
>  > I want single-user as F1... ACPI should work now on most systems and I  
>  > don't see why disabling it should be in the first position), or does  
>  > it use the same stuff as the text menu for this (to fiddling with  
>  > forth would be necessary)?
> 
> The actual menu contents are in the beastie.4th file, just
> like for the old text menu.  So, yes, you'd need to speak
> FORTH in order to change that.
> 
> How many of the FreeBSD developers are actually fluent in
> FORTH?  How many committers are able to review the .4th
> code that I wrote?
> 
> Would there be strong resistance if I tried to replace FICL
> with something else that is not as brain-knotting as FORTH?
> Just to name an example, I once wrote a bourne-shell-like
> parser that would not be difficult to embed.  I assume that
> would enable many more developers and users to play with
> the boot menu stuff.

Great idea. That Forth code is really an obstacle for playing with the
boot menu...
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