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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] kvm:showing a splash picture when start
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Richard W.M. Jones |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] kvm:showing a splash picture when start |
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Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:00:29 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
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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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] kvm:showing a splash picture when start, (continued)
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] kvm:showing a splash picture when start, Wayne Xia, 2011/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] kvm:showing a splash picture when start, Jan Kiszka, 2011/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] kvm:showing a splash picture when start, Daniel P. Berrange, 2011/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] kvm:showing a splash picture when start, Jan Kiszka, 2011/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] kvm:showing a splash picture when start, Andreas Färber, 2011/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] kvm:showing a splash picture when start, Wayne Xia, 2011/06/23
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] kvm:showing a splash picture when start, Daniel P. Berrange, 2011/06/23
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] kvm:showing a splash picture when start, Daniel P. Berrange, 2011/06/23
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] kvm:showing a splash picture when start,
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