On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:44:31PM -0500, Timothy Pearson wrote:
> On 03/12/2015 12:38 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >
> >
> >On 12/03/2015 18:23, Timothy Pearson wrote:
> >>Any chance SeaBIOS could emit a short chirp when it receives the ESC to
> >>boot menu request? That would solve the "hammering
On 03/12/2015 12:38 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
On 12/03/2015 18:23, Timothy Pearson wrote:
Any chance SeaBIOS could emit a short chirp when it receives the ESC to
boot menu request? That would solve the "hammering blindly at the keys"
problem while the video is initialising, at least on systems
On 03/12/2015 12:20 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
On 12/03/2015 16:58, Matt DeVillier wrote:
Is there are reason to keep the use of ESC to exit the boot menu at
all?
It's a fairly obvious user interface. If you don't know what to choose,
press ESC.
Is that a feature that users use/expect? 1.5
On 12/03/2015 16:58, Matt DeVillier wrote:
> Is there are reason to keep the use of ESC to exit the boot menu at
> all?
It's a fairly obvious user interface. If you don't know what to choose,
press ESC.
> Is that a feature that users use/expect? 1.5s may sound like a
> lot of time, but with m
On 3/12/2015 9:49 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> If the menu key is ESC, do not restart boot unless
> 1.5 seconds have passed. Otherwise users (trained by years of
> repeatedly hitting keys to enter the BIOS) will end up hitting ESC
> multiple times and immediately booting the primary boot device.
>
>
If the menu key is ESC, do not restart boot unless
1.5 seconds have passed. Otherwise users (trained by years of
repeatedly hitting keys to enter the BIOS) will end up hitting ESC
multiple times and immediately booting the primary boot device.
Suggested-by: Matt DeVillier
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bo
