Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support

[Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>]

Le mardi 16 décembre 2008 à 22:46 +0200, Blue Swirl a écrit :
> On 12/16/08, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> 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 device and draw it to screen. This
> > > would need some PNG support to BIOS, or that the image stored in raw
> > > form.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >  Yeah, having QEMU render to the VGA directly is a bit ugly.  It would be
> > nicer if the BIOS actually rendered the image but I'm not sure I think we
> > should reject the patch just because it doesn't.
> 
> Actually this way the image can be in full color even if the emulated
> device was an EGA in text mode.

And you can provide the image name on the command line, and complexity
is in Qemu, not in BIOS.

But in fact, my first idea was to read the image data from the
configuration device (which is always possible with LOGO_CMD_OFFSET),
but when I saw how it has been done in VirtualBox, I though it was a
good idea.

But I agree, it's ugly.

Regards,
Laurent
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