Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support

Kevin O'Connor
2008-12-17T13:51:19Z

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:06:54PM +0200, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On 12/16/08, Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net> wrote:
> > This series of patches adds a nice BIOS startup splash screen.
> >
> > It adds a "-splash" option allowing to specify the picture file name (a 640x480 (or less) and true color PNG) to display. You can enable/disable fade in,
> > fade out and bootmenu. The time to display the image can be also given (in
> > seconds).
> >
> > Idea and some parts of code are stollen from VirtualBox (GPLv2/CDDL).
> Alternatively the BIOS could load the image and fade parameters from a
> new ROM or from the configuration device and draw it to screen. This
> would need some PNG support to BIOS, or that the image stored in raw
> form.

I also think the BIOS should either fully handle the splash screen, or
bochs/qemu should fully handle it. I don't think it makes sense to
put part of the code in the bios and part in the emulator.

-Kevin