[systemd-devel] RFC: luksSuspend support in sleep/sleep.c

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 8:33 AM Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 2:31 PM Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at google.com> wrote:
> >
> > The initrd already contains a UI stack in order to permit disk unlock
> > at boot time, so this really doesn't seem like a problem?
>
> It's a very small and limited UI stack. At least the GNOME developers
> I've discussed it with, this environment has all kinds of a11y, i18n,
> and keymapping problems. To solve it means either baking a significant
> portion of the GNOME stack into the initramfs, or some kind of magic
> because the resources don't exist to create a minimized GNOME stack
> that could achieve this. And so far the effort has been to try and
> make the initramfs smaller, and more generic.

I agree that the Plymouth UI stack isn't ideal for various reasons,
but it's the UI stack that's used for unlocking the drive during boot
so reusing it doesn't make things any worse than they already are.