[U-Boot] U-Boot Graphics Library?

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Simon Glass,

In message <CAPnjgZ3rNhvL98JEOPV=90u-Wr3iEqs8QgqYaz=bOohRFRJeEA at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> The problem is that a major purpose of the GUIs is to allow installing
> an OS from a USB stick/SD card, since the OS may have become corrupted
> and unbootable. We have looked at keeping around a separate OS image
> for this (e.g. in an available disk partition), but so far that hasn't
> proved practical since that itself can be fairly easily overwritten
> and we then have a doorstop.
> 
> The less fancy, the better, but consumers have certain expectations
> that force us to make some efforts...there is already a single font in
> U-Boot, but it's not good enough for multi-language pretty displays
> unfortunately.

Why don't you load and start a small recovery system from the USB
stick then?  I don't see why you need a GUI to do that.  This could be
mostly made automatic.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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