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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support
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Kevin O'Connor |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:51:14 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:06:54PM +0200, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On 12/16/08, Laurent Vivier <address@hidden> 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
> > fade in,
> > fade out and bootmenu. The time to display the image can be also given (in
> > seconds).
> >
> > Idea and some parts of code are stollen from VirtualBox (GPLv2/CDDL).
> Alternatively the BIOS could load the image and fade parameters from a
> new ROM or from the configuration device and draw it to screen. This
> would need some PNG support to BIOS, or that the image stored in raw
> form.
I also think the BIOS should either fully handle the splash screen, or
bochs/qemu should fully handle it. I don't think it makes sense to
put part of the code in the bios and part in the emulator.
-Kevin
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support, Kevin Wolf, 2008/12/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support, Daniel P. Berrange, 2008/12/17
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support, Jan Kiszka, 2008/12/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support, Gildas, 2008/12/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support, M. Warner Losh, 2008/12/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support, Gleb Natapov, 2008/12/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support, Anthony Liguori, 2008/12/17
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support, Sebastian Herbszt, 2008/12/17
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support, Anthony Liguori, 2008/12/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support, Daniel P. Berrange, 2008/12/17
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support,
Kevin O'Connor <=
[Qemu-devel] Re: [Bochs-developers] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support, Sebastian Herbszt, 2008/12/17