From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: Wayne Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] kvm:showing a splash picture when start
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:00:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110623120029.GA11202@amd.home.annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E030501.3040105@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 05:18:57PM +0800, Wayne Xia wrote:
> Hi,
> these 3 patch simply enable qemu-kvm to show a logo picture when it
> s start up, following is how to configurate it:
> invoke it with params:
> -boot (splash_time=<N>,) (splash_filename=<N>,)
> the splash_time is in the unit of ms, and its max value is 65535.
> this feature is by default on with 5000ms showing up.
> Patch 1 contains the source modification for qemu-kvm, Patch 2 and
> 3 are binary patches that added a default logo picture file, alternated
> the bios.bin to make the sea-bios showing it. Patch 3 is just used to
> provide a convenient way to test the Patch, waiting for newer version
> of seabios that provide the support officially.
> Any comments would be very nice.
Splash screens are a terrible idea. We should work instead on making
the boot even faster.
And having it *default* to 5 seconds! That's like, nearly double the
time it takes to launch libguestfs completely!!
Please don't accept these patches.
Rich.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-23 12:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-23 9:18 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] kvm:showing a splash picture when start Wayne Xia
2011-06-23 10:03 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-06-23 11:14 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-06-23 11:17 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-06-23 12:33 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-06-23 12:36 ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-23 11:56 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2011-06-23 11:57 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-06-23 12:05 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2011-06-23 11:20 ` Wayne Xia
2011-06-23 11:24 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-06-23 12:05 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-06-23 12:29 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-06-23 14:46 ` Andreas Färber
2011-06-24 2:28 ` Wayne Xia
2011-06-23 11:46 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-06-23 11:41 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-06-23 12:00 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2011-06-23 13:38 ` Michael Tokarev
2011-06-23 14:59 ` Anthony Liguori
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