[SeaBIOS] [PATCH v3 1/2] boot.c: delay exiting boot if menu key is ESC

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini at redhat.com
Thu Mar 12 18:20:52 CET 2015



On 12/03/2015 16:58, Matt DeVillier wrote:
> Is there are reason to keep the use of ESC to exit the boot menu at
> all?

It's a fairly obvious user interface.  If you don't know what to choose,
press ESC.

> Is that a feature that users use/expect?  1.5s may sound like a
> lot of time, but with many using a TV as the display these days, it
> can take longer than that to even init/sync the screen.

If that is a problem, people can still apply something like your patch.
 But I don't think it's the common case.

Paolo



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