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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 2/4] bios: Add fast variant of SeaBIOS for use wi
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Richard W.M. Jones |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 2/4] bios: Add fast variant of SeaBIOS for use with -kernel on x86. |
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Mon, 4 Jul 2016 11:08:13 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) |
On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 11:33:40AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <address@hidden>
>
> 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>
> Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden>
Hi Gerd, I'd like to "self-" NACK this patch - ie. I withdraw it.
It needs more work to benchmark any time savings, and I think also to
explore other ways to fix the problem.
Thanks,
Rich.
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