Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2][v2] Add BIOS splash image support

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> 2008/12/18 Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>:
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>> 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.
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> Maybe having a default splash image in the same directory as the BIOS
> binary, with hardcoded path, would make sense?  Then instead of adding
> -splash you could override with -L.  A linux distribution could
> override it too.
>   

I think we should leave -splash to allow people to control it but I also 
like the idea of having a default splash for QEMU.  If someone out there 
is good with gimp, please post splash screens and we can consider a 
default :-)

N.B. If we do this, the prompt=off stuff would disable the splash.  We 
should also prevent the VGA BIOS from writing to the screen during boot 
but we can do this all as follow up.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Cheers
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