From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>,
bochs developers <bochs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>,
kvm developers <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:18:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812171318.58650.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081217110319.GD13455@redhat.com>
> > 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.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-17 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-16 15:20 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support Laurent Vivier
2008-12-16 15:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Correct fw_cfg_add_callback() Laurent Vivier
2008-12-16 15:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] [BIOS] Add splash image support Laurent Vivier
2008-12-16 15:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] [QEMU] Add BIOS splash image Laurent Vivier
2008-12-16 15:33 ` Andreas Färber
2008-12-16 17:22 ` Laurent Vivier
2008-12-16 16:16 ` Blue Swirl
2008-12-16 17:32 ` Laurent Vivier
2008-12-16 17:41 ` Blue Swirl
2008-12-16 17:58 ` Laurent Vivier
2008-12-16 20:06 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support Blue Swirl
2008-12-16 20:28 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-16 20:46 ` Blue Swirl
2008-12-16 21:51 ` Laurent Vivier
2008-12-17 0:10 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2008-12-17 13:09 ` Laurent Vivier
2008-12-17 16:21 ` [Bochs-developers] " Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2008-12-17 22:58 ` [Bochs-developers] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splashimage support Sebastian Herbszt
2008-12-17 11:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support Daniel P. Berrange
2008-12-17 13:18 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2008-12-17 13:45 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-12-17 13:55 ` Gleb Natapov
2008-12-17 14:53 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-12-17 15:06 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-12-17 15:17 ` Paul Brook
2008-12-17 16:35 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-12-17 17:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-17 18:30 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-12-17 18:43 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-17 18:09 ` Andreas Färber
2008-12-17 17:15 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-17 22:28 ` Sebastian Herbszt
2008-12-18 8:59 ` Volker Ruppert
2008-12-18 21:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-17 17:12 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2008-12-17 14:49 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-17 14:54 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-12-17 15:04 ` Kevin Wolf
2008-12-17 15:26 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-12-17 16:44 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2008-12-17 17:06 ` Gildas
2008-12-17 17:22 ` M. Warner Losh
2008-12-17 17:17 ` Gleb Natapov
2008-12-17 18:01 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-17 22:03 ` [Qemu-devel] " Sebastian Herbszt
2008-12-17 22:09 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-12-17 14:01 ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange
2008-12-17 13:51 ` Kevin O'Connor
2008-12-17 21:58 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [Bochs-developers] " Sebastian Herbszt
2008-12-17 23:24 ` Laurent Vivier
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