On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 04:50:27PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > The patch optionally makes grub not show any text (be fully quiet) when > timeout_style=hidden is set and the user does not interrupt the boot. > > Combined with a later patch in this series which makes grub not touch > the EFI console unless it actually has some text to print, this will keep > the vendor logo which EFI put on the display in place until the kernel > touches the display. Leading to a more smooth / seamless boot experience. > > At least Fedora/RHEL/CentOS and Ubuntu have been carrying patches for this > for a long time now (since 2013). There have been several attempts to > upstream these patches in the past already, which have been rejected > because not everyone likes the quiet behavior.
May I ask you to provide links to the relevant conversations? > This patch makes the quiet behavior optional and defaults to off, so > unless grub is compiled with the new --enable-quiet-boot configure option > this patch changes nothing. I am not sure why this should be build time option. I would see this as a runtime option, e.g. boot_quiet shell variable or even timeout_style=quiet. Hmmm... Latter is probably preferred. Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
