Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 2/4] bios: Add fast variant of SeaBIOS for use with -kernel on x86.

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 11:33:40AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
> 
> 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 <rjones@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

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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