From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LCzVj-0000UG-Ff for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:44:35 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LCzVh-0000TV-Lg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:44:34 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59166 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LCzVh-0000TP-D3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:44:33 -0500 Received: from gecko.sbs.de ([194.138.37.40]:15592) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LCzVg-0007Gu-Ow for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:44:33 -0500 Message-ID: <49492C51.7090101@siemens.com> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:44:01 +0100 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1229440810-12394-1-git-send-email-Laurent.Vivier@bull.net> <49480F6D.2010302@codemonkey.ws> <20081217110319.GD13455@redhat.com> <200812171318.58650.paul@codesourcery.com> <49490282.3080800@siemens.com> <4949116F.6090604@redhat.com> <49491293.9070501@siemens.com> <49491519.4080907@suse.de> <20081217152603.GV13455@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20081217152603.GV13455@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Daniel P. Berrange" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 04:04:57PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote: >> Jan Kiszka schrieb: >>> Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >>>> Jan Kiszka wrote: >>>>> Yes, please. I hate this artificial delay, specifically as I have to do >>>>> a lot of short boot tests where this contributes noticeably to their >>>>> execution time. But, as usual, it didn't hurt enough to make me hack a >>>>> patch yet. I'm willing to do this if we can agree on how it should be done. >>>> Show the boot menu only on case no "-boot whatever" cmd line option is >>>> present? >>> I would say only when there is -bootmenu as Gleb suggested. I'm half >>> done with this approach already. >> I like Gerd's approach better as it doesn't introduce yet another >> command line parameter. It makes sense to me that you don't want a menu >> if you specify -boot. > > Actually no it doesn't. The reason the original author wrote this > boot menu patch was explicitly so that if you had used a '-boot d' > arg, you could do a one-time override from the BIOS screen. > > One other alternative to added a brand new arg is to just allow an extra > meta-character in -boot arg to indicate that it should prompt or not > > -boot d (use cdrom) > > vs > > -boot d+ (default cdrom, prompt to allow override) > > but perhaps that's a bit obtuse > -boot d,ask would make more sense to me (as it is more verbose). BTW, a few interruptions later I meanwhile had the chance to realize that QEMU's bios.diff does not yet carry and fw_cfg bits, right? Does its binary include them? Or is this currently kvm-only stuff? Jan