On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:06:54PM +0200, Blue Swirl wrote: > 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). > 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 -- 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
