[PATCH 0/4] Arguments to skip boot menu and to hide bios output

Cory Fields
2009-02-06T23:19:20Z

This patchset creates new commandline arguments -quietboot and
-fastboot

-quietboot silences normal text output from the bios and vgabios. I
rarely care to see this output and it looks much cleaner when the
first thing shown in a KVM window is init or splash (or the dreaded
Windows logo)

-fastboot lets you explicitly skip the "Press f12 for boot menu" option
saving ~3 seconds on each boot. It is also implied by -kernel -boot
or -quietboot.

I've been working with kvm, but I realize this may be qemu related.
Figured I'd give it a shot here first.

This is my first patch submitted to a mailinglist so any
etiquette/procedural comments or critiques are appreciated.

Also, my asm-fu is weak so I'm sure those few lines need some help.

Cory Fields
---
bios/rombios.c | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
qemu/hw/fw_cfg.c | 2 +
qemu/hw/fw_cfg.h | 2 +
qemu/sysemu.h | 2 +
qemu/vl.c | 17 +++++++++++
vgabios/vgabios.c | 17 ++++++++++-
6 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)