[SeaBIOS] Want to introduce a feature to let SeaBios Show a bootflash picture when system start up normally

[wayne]

Hello all,
There is suggestion to let KVM be able to show a logo when it start up.
Although the sea-bios already included a mechanism to try show
"bootsplash.jpg" when it was configured with "menu=on" option, but it
would not show it when the system was normally boot up, so I would like
do some modification in the sea-bios code to let the bios showing the
picture when the system boot up.
I tried the tiny jpeg decoder originally included, it seems there will
be some observable visual quality lose and if the VESA is in 24BPP mode,
the picture data would not be copied correctly for the reason that the
byte number per line of that mode is not equal to 3*width, So I want to
add some function to fix this, and also added some function to show
24bpp BMP file instead of JPEG as an option to get better visual effect.

Following is what I want to do:
1 in the "boot.c", function "interactive_bootmenu", add codes to
"romfile_loadfile" the "bootsplash.cfg" file. From it, the seabios get
two configuration data : first is should it show the picture without
menu enabled, second is how long it should show it. if load file failed,
the sea-bios would act as before.
2 in the "bootsplash.c", function "enable_bootsplash(void)", add codes
to try "romfile_loadfile" the "bootsplash.bmp", besides
"bootsplash.jpg". Add a function to fix the problem when Bytes per line
of VESA mode is not equal to picture width * 3. Also add additional code
to show the BMP file instead of JPEG.
3 ADD "bmp.c" and "bmp.h" to support above code.

Could this be acceptable?

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Best Regards

Wayne Xia
mail:xiawenc at cn.ibm.com
tel:86-010-82450803