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 appears unless there >> is a boot failure, and gets control to the OS as quickly as possible. >> IMHO a better goal is reducing the time until the OS / bootloader is >> able to take over all management of the display. > > I agree. The qemu bios init process takes almost no time. > > The only reason it takes a noticeable amount of time is that we have a > deliberate delay in there to allow the user to access the boot menu. > I'm not convinced this menu is actually very useful in practice, It's > something that should probably be delegated to your management utility and/or > be optional.
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 should be done. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT SE 26 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
