From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LCx07-00056I-4N for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:03:47 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LCx06-00054x-JW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:03:46 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50789 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LCx06-00054a-4f for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:03:46 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:51757) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LCx05-0004Yi-Jm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:03:45 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:01:34 +0000 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support Message-ID: <20081217140134.GH13455@redhat.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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200812171318.58650.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paul Brook Cc: Blue Swirl , bochs developers , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm developers On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 01:18:57PM +0000, 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. I agree - if you've not got an easy way to switch boot devices already, then that's a bug in the management app being used. So a way to turn off this BIOS boot menu would be benefical. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|