On 12/16/08, Laurent Vivier <laurent.viv...@bull.net> 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). > > [PATCH 1/3] Correct fw_cfg_add_callback() > [PATCH 2/3] [BIOS] Add splash image support > [PATCH 3/3] [QEMU] Add BIOS splash image
On second thought, there is no Gtk/Qt GUI because that is supposed to be external to Qemu. By the same logic, why should there be any splash screen? The external GUI can probably show it as easily using the same Gtk/Qt/whatever. The control channel may still be needed. 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
