[Bug 1870520] Re: spinner theme needs a fallback oem graphic, if there is none

[Daniel van Vugt]

I think a default graphic would be worse than none. On real machines
like ThinkPads with legacy BIOS enabled you see a big Lenovo logo
followed by blackness, so that's also this bug. But I think that's the
lesser evil compared to the Lenovo logo changing to something else that
will confuse the user. Also on such real hardware the user can avoid the
whole problem (if it bothers them) by disabling legacy BIOS modes.

But I agree it would be nice to fix this for VMs, in SeaBIOS or
wherever.


** Changed in: plymouth (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Also affects: seabios (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: seabios (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Tags added: focal

** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Changed in: seabios (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Changed in: plymouth (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

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Title:
  spinner theme needs a fallback oem graphic, if there is none

Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in qemu package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in seabios package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  the new default ubuntu boot theme, shows OEM vendor logo during boot,
  and it looks very slick on UEFI / brand-name laptops. There is large
  dell/lenovo/etc logos, spinner, ubuntu logo.

  However, under some boots, there is no vendor logo available (either
  buggy firmware, buggy firmware settings, or BIOS boot with no logo
  available, ie. VM).

  In that case we possibly want to have a fallback graphics in plymouth.
  Something monochome and big (needs a new asset) i.e. just the
  canonical circle.

  Incidentally, can we fix our SeaBIOS VM firmware to expose a logo in
  BIOS boot that plymouth can use and show here? Something like SeaBIOS?
  I.e. under UEFI boot, there is a large Tianocore logo.

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