From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laurent Vivier Subject: Re: [Bochs-developers] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:24:42 +0100 Message-ID: <1229556282.16930.16.camel@frecb07144> References: <1229440810-12394-1-git-send-email-Laurent.Vivier@bull.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: kvm developers , bochs developers , qemu developers To: Sebastian Herbszt Return-path: Received: from ecfrec.frec.bull.fr ([129.183.4.8]:40470 "EHLO ecfrec.frec.bull.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752098AbYLQXYt (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:24:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Le mercredi 17 d=C3=A9cembre 2008 =C3=A0 22:58 +0100, Sebastian Herbszt= a =C3=A9crit : > Laurent Vivier wrote: > > This series of patches adds a nice BIOS startup splash screen. > > > > It adds a "-splash" option allowing to specify the picture file nam= e (a 640x480 (or less) and true color PNG) to=20 > > display. You can enable/disable fade in, > > fade out and bootmenu. The time to display the image can be also gi= ven (in > > seconds). > > > > Idea and some parts of code are stollen from VirtualBox (GPLv2/CDDL= ). >=20 > rombios.c is LGPL. Can we mix it with GPLv2/CDDL code without any dow= nsides? Good question. But the GPLv2 code is not in rombios.c (but in logo.h, logo.c) and moreover VirtualBox uses the same rombios.c with their GPLv= 2 logo.[ch]... perhaps we can ask Sun lawyers ;-) ? I'm the author of all the code added to rombios.c to manage splash screen and I agree to put this under LGPL. For the logo.[ch], I keep only approximately 20% of original VirtualBox code (data structure, to set vga mode, to clear screen and some name), if needed I can rewrite this to put logo.[ch] under LGPL. Regards, Laurent --=20 ------------------ Laurent.Vivier@bull.net ------------------ "Tout ce qui est impossible reste =C3=A0 accomplir" Jules Verne "Things are only impossible until they're not" Jean-Luc Picard