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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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  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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