From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LDLgO-00084Y-ME for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:25:04 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LDLgN-00083p-M7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:25:04 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58652 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LDLgN-00083k-EJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:25:03 -0500 Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.92.145]:16038) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LDLgN-0002NC-5Z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:25:03 -0500 Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 5so114729qwc.4 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:25:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <494A7959.70704@codemonkey.ws> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:24:57 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1229611897-7348-1-git-send-email-Laurent.Vivier@bull.net> In-Reply-To: <1229611897-7348-1-git-send-email-Laurent.Vivier@bull.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/2][v2] Add BIOS splash image support Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Laurent Vivier Cc: bochs developers , qemu developers , kvm developers Laurent Vivier wrote: > This series of patches adds a nice BIOS startup splash screen. > > It adds a "-splash" option allowing to specify the picture file name (a 640x480 (or less) and true color PNG) to display. You can enable/disable a fade in, > fade out and the bootmenu. The time to display the image can be also given (in > seconds). > > Idea stollen from VirtualBox. > > [PATCH 1/2] [BIOS] Add splash image support > [PATCH 2/2] [QEMU] Add BIOS splash image > So my general feeling here is that this code is well isolated and provides a feature that some people will find interesting. I know I personally am interested in this feature. I also think that a good number of vendors will want to use this mechanism to brand their virtualization offerings. So I'm inclined to take this patch set unless there is objection. I don't necessarily disagree with some of the feedback about making the BIOS not delay at all but I think that's an orthogonal discussion to this one. The Press F12 thing also annoys me and I'd be happy to look at patches to make it optional. Regards, Anthony Liguori > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >