On 12/16/08, Laurent Vivier 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 tim
Blue Swirl wrote:
On 12/16/08, Laurent Vivier 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 bootm
On 12/16/08, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Blue Swirl wrote:
>
> > On 12/16/08, Laurent Vivier 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
Le mardi 16 décembre 2008 à 22:46 +0200, Blue Swirl a écrit :
> On 12/16/08, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > Blue Swirl wrote:
> > > 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 devi
On 16.12.2008 22:51, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> Le mardi 16 décembre 2008 à 22:46 +0200, Blue Swirl a écrit :
>
>> On 12/16/08, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>>> Blue Swirl wrote:
>>>
>
>
The control channel may still be needed.
Alternatively the BIOS could load the imag
Paul Brook wrote:
>> BTW, why does qemu not carry all bochs bios source? For reference, but
>> also to fully comply with the LGPL (pointing to the original source is
>> not sufficient when delivering binaries - like e.g. bios.bin...).
>
> If this is really an issue, then I strongly suggest we fix
On 17.12.2008 14:55, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 02:45:38PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>
>> Paul Brook wrote:
>>
> Modern BIOSes have splash screens. I don't see why our BIOS shouldn't
> have one too.
>
Crap PC BIOSes have splash screens because
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 02:28:29PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Blue Swirl wrote:
> >On 12/16/08, Laurent Vivier 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 le
Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Paul Brook wrote:
>>
BTW, why does qemu not carry all bochs bios source? For reference, but
also to fully comply with the LGPL (pointing to the original source is
not sufficient when delivering binaries - like e.g. bios.bin...).
Jan Kiszka wrote:
Anthony Liguori wrote:
But please, this is not an issue worth even discussing here. It is only
relevant for people distributing QEMU and it's up to those people to
consult with their legal teams to determine whether they need to do
anything special.
And why complicat
> > Modern BIOSes have splash screens. I don't see why our BIOS shouldn't
> > have one too.
>
> Crap PC BIOSes have splash screens because they're horribly slow
> and otherwise printing lots of irrelevant scary junk at users. The
> best BIOS 'splash' screen is one which never appears unless there
Paul Brook wrote:
>>> Modern BIOSes have splash screens. I don't see why our BIOS shouldn't
>>> have one too.
>> Crap PC BIOSes have splash screens because they're horribly slow
>> and otherwise printing lots of irrelevant scary junk at users. The
>> best BIOS 'splash' screen is one which never ap
Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Yes, please. I hate this artificial delay, specifically as I have to do
>> a lot of short boot tests where this contributes noticeably to their
>> execution time. But, as usual, it didn't hurt enough to make me hack a
>> patch yet. I'm willing to do this
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:06:54PM +0200, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On 12/16/08, Laurent Vivier 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
Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Yes, please. I hate this artificial delay, specifically as I have to do
> a lot of short boot tests where this contributes noticeably to their
> execution time. But, as usual, it didn't hurt enough to make me hack a
> patch yet. I'm willing to do this if we can agree on how it s
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 01:18:57PM +, Paul Brook wrote:
> > > Modern BIOSes have splash screens. I don't see why our BIOS shouldn't
> > > have one too.
> >
> > Crap PC BIOSes have splash screens because they're horribly slow
> > and otherwise printing lots of irrelevant scary junk at users. Th
Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 02:45:38PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Paul Brook wrote:
> Modern BIOSes have splash screens. I don't see why our BIOS shouldn't
> have one too.
Crap PC BIOSes have splash screens because they're horribly slow
and otherwise printing l
Jan Kiszka wrote:
Paul Brook wrote:
BTW, why does qemu not carry all bochs bios source? For reference, but
also to fully comply with the LGPL (pointing to the original source is
not sufficient when delivering binaries - like e.g. bios.bin...).
If this is really an issue, then I strongl
Le mercredi 17 décembre 2008 à 01:10 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger a
écrit :
> On 16.12.2008 22:51, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> > Le mardi 16 décembre 2008 à 22:46 +0200, Blue Swirl a écrit :
> >
> >> On 12/16/08, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >>
> >>> Blue Swirl wrote:
> >>>
> >
> >
> >>
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 02:45:38PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Paul Brook wrote:
> >>> Modern BIOSes have splash screens. I don't see why our BIOS shouldn't
> >>> have one too.
> >> Crap PC BIOSes have splash screens because they're horribly slow
> >> and otherwise printing lots of irrelevant scary
> BTW, why does qemu not carry all bochs bios source? For reference, but
> also to fully comply with the LGPL (pointing to the original source is
> not sufficient when delivering binaries - like e.g. bios.bin...).
If this is really an issue, then I strongly suggest we fix it by moving the
bios in
Paul Brook wrote:
BTW, why does qemu not carry all bochs bios source? For reference, but
also to fully comply with the LGPL (pointing to the original source is
not sufficient when delivering binaries - like e.g. bios.bin...).
If this is really an issue, then I strongly suggest we fix it by
Jan Kiszka wrote:
> ...
> BTW, why does qemu not carry all bochs bios source? For reference, but
> also to fully comply with the LGPL (pointing to the original source is
> not sufficient when delivering binaries - like e.g. bios.bin...).
OK, reading the diff more carefully told me that it's releas
Anthony Liguori wrote:
Paul Brook wrote:
BTW, why does qemu not carry all bochs bios source? For reference, but
also to fully comply with the LGPL (pointing to the original source is
not sufficient when delivering binaries - like e.g. bios.bin...).
If this is really an issue, then I stron
Hi all!
> > This would be the best solution. How do the bochs folks feel about this?
>
> There is the pcbios project available at
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pcbios It seems fairly out of date tho.
> Volker, you happen to know the status?
The PCBIOS project was based on the Bochs BIOS
Volker Ruppert wrote:
> Hi all!
>
>>> This would be the best solution. How do the bochs folks feel about this?
>> There is the pcbios project available at
>> http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pcbios It seems fairly out of date tho.
>> Volker, you happen to know the status?
>
> The PCBIOS proje
On 17.12.2008 14:09, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> Le mercredi 17 décembre 2008 à 01:10 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger a
> écrit :
>
>> On 16.12.2008 22:51, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>>
>>> Le mardi 16 décembre 2008 à 22:46 +0200, Blue Swirl a écrit :
>>>
>>>
On 12/16/08, Anthony Liguor
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