Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] bios: Add fast variant of SeaBIOS for use with -kernel on x86.

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 08:07:04PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> This commit adds a fast variant of SeaBIOS called 'bios-fast.bin'.
> 
> It's designed to be the fastest (also the smallest, but that's not the
> main aim) SeaBIOS that is just enough to boot a Linux kernel using the
> -kernel option on i686 and x86_64.
> 
> This commit does not modify the -kernel option to use this.  You have
> to specify it by doing something like this:
> 
>   -kernel vmlinuz -bios bios-fast.bin
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <address@hidden>
> ---
>  Makefile                 |  3 ++-
>  roms/Makefile            |  4 +++-
>  roms/config.seabios-fast | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 roms/config.seabios-fast

Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>

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