On 15.02.2018 07:38, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 14.02.2018 18:46, Collin L. Walling wrote:
>> I'm beginning to like the usage of splash-time to represent a timeout
>> for the boot menu
>> less and less. It is really meant for how long a _splash_ _image_
>> should appear during boot.
>>
>> I'd like to suggest adding a new boot option "menu-timeout". An
>> alternative would be
>> documenting in qemu-options.hx that s390 treats "splash-time" as the
>> menu-timeout.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> I think you should keep splash-time and not introduce a new option.
> Libvirt seems to map the timeout from <bootmenu enable='yes'
> timeout='X'/> to the splash-time option, and according to the libvirt
> documentation: "Additional attribute timeout takes the number of
> milliseconds the boot menu should wait until it times out."
>
> So it seems like splash-time is already expected to define the amount of
> time for the boot menu. We should not confuse libvirt or the users by
> introducing yet another option here.
I agree, the QEMU option name was probably poorly chosen, as it really
describes the time a user has to interact with the BIOS before it starts
booting the OS.
BTW: we could have a nice ASCII art splash image (nah ... just kidding)
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Regards,
Viktor Mihajlovski
