Okay, I'm back in town and back in the forum.

Welcome back! Business trip or pleasure?

I would guess that the serial port (where the printk() output goes) must run at a slower speed when Docked versus Un-Docked, right?

Yup.

..the master plan to embed userspace apps into the menus.

[drool]... I cannot wait for this! I have a little project I'm working on which will hopefully take advantage of this.. It's kinda along the "passenger seat entertainment"

Hey, one thing... I was looking at your plans for this and I don't recall seeing anything about letting user apps write some text to the screen in the same way your menu system does... Like I'm thinking the user app could call something like this:

hijack_print("This is some text", 16, 4);

To write a string starting at location x=16 y=4 on the display. Obviously if you implemented the overlay and "full screen" display modes the user apps could put together the text themselves, but since you have some fonts already in the kernel, were you planning on opening those up to the users? This would make it really easy for people to write little messages to the display without having to piece together display buffers... Right?