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

[Timothy Pearson]

On 03/12/2015 12:20 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>
> 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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Any chance SeaBIOS could emit a short chirp when it receives the ESC to 
boot menu request?  That would solve the "hammering blindly at the keys" 
problem while the video is initialising, at least on systems with a PC 
speaker/buzzer still installed.

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