Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] kvm:showing a splash picture when start

[Richard W.M. Jones]

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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