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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 00/12] Guest startup time
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> > > 2) Linux optimizations: using an uncompressed image to avoid the
> > > cost of copying and decompressing.  QEMU can already load the
> > > image
> > > at the right place and the real mode stub can do little more than
> > > GDT/IDT setup.
> > 
> > This works surely. I actually followed your suggestion in v1 to
> > make
> > kernel multiboot-compatible and then load that kernel in QEMU
> > directly
> 
> Please try posting the multiboot patches to the upstream x86 Linux
> mailing list.  I am very interested in them, because I think it's the
> simplest way to compare qboot with direct kernel load.  And as you
> say,
> it might make patch 11 a little smaller and possibly more acceptable.
> 
OK, I will do that (and to see their feedbacks).

Thanks,
Chao