From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:45:38 +0100 Message-ID: <49490282.3080800@siemens.com> References: <1229440810-12394-1-git-send-email-Laurent.Vivier@bull.net> <49480F6D.2010302@codemonkey.ws> <20081217110319.GD13455@redhat.com> <200812171318.58650.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm developers , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Blue Swirl , bochs developers To: Paul Brook Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200812171318.58650.paul@codesourcery.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+gceq-qemu-devel=gmane.org@nongnu.org Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+gceq-qemu-devel=gmane.org@nongnu.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Paul Brook wrote: >>> Modern BIOSes have splash screens. I don't see why our BIOS shouldn't >>> have one too. >> Crap PC BIOSes have splash screens because they're horribly slow >> and otherwise printing lots of irrelevant scary junk at users. The >> best BIOS 'splash' screen is one which never appears unless there >> is a boot failure, and gets control to the OS as quickly as possible. >> IMHO a better goal is reducing the time until the OS / bootloader is >> able to take over all management of the display. > > I agree. The qemu bios init process takes almost no time. > > The only reason it takes a noticeable amount of time is that we have a > deliberate delay in there to allow the user to access the boot menu. > I'm not convinced this menu is actually very useful in practice, It's > something that should probably be delegated to your management utility and/or > be optional. 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. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT SE 26 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux