On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 12:55:41 +0300 Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 03:22:42PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > > > > Yet another one would be to have setupcon itself detect the > > existence of the cached scripts. > > The only reason there are cached scripts is that people are > complaining that console-setup is slow at boot. The cached scripts > contain the mininum configuration sufficient to configure the > console. If we run setupcon, we don't need cached scripts. Is console-setup the thing which initialises the console fonts and resolution? Is its slowness the reason why, on boot, it takes a few seconds for the text-mode screen to transition to a virtual terminal, which then has its font changed a few seconds later to the more readable Debian default? Why is console-setup so slow?
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