From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Cc: marc.mari.barcelo@gmail.com, kevin@koconnor.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Why is SeaBIOS used with -kernel?
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 10:21:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160331092125.GH32185@stefanha-x1.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160319203124.GB19398@redhat.com>
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On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 08:31:24PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Is there something I'm missing, or for Linux + -kernel could we use a
> much simpler BIOS?
The data that Marc Mari collected when comparing qboot with an optimized
SeaBIOS/QEMU showed that there's no need for a separate "lightweight
firmware" codebase.
https://github.com/bonzini/qboot
It would create a maintenance burden and eventually we'd want many of
the SeaBIOS features anyway. It's better to optimize linuxboot.bin and
SeaBIOS instead.
Kevin O'Connor had some SeaBIOS optimizations that improved boot time by
skipping unnecessary probing and timer calibration IIRC. I have CCed
Marc and Kevin on this email.
Stefan
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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-19 20:31 [Qemu-devel] Why is SeaBIOS used with -kernel? Richard W.M. Jones
2016-03-21 7:58 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-03-21 8:37 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-03-21 9:40 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-03-31 9:21 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2016-03-31 16:22 ` Kevin O'Connor
[not found] ` <20160331221039.GA32728@redhat.com>
2016-03-31 22:17 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-03-31 22:44 ` Kevin O'Connor
2016-04-01 7:55 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 8:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-04-01 8:47 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 8:51 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-04-01 8:57 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 9:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-04-01 8:02 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 8:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-04-01 8:14 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 8:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-04-01 8:44 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 8:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-04-01 8:49 ` Vasiliy Tolstov
2016-04-01 9:16 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2016-04-01 9:18 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-04-01 10:17 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 11:07 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-04-01 11:11 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 11:20 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 11:21 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-04-01 11:26 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-05 4:38 ` Kevin Wolf
2016-04-05 8:04 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-05 8:11 ` Kevin Wolf
2016-04-05 9:19 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-05 9:26 ` Kevin Wolf
2016-04-01 11:32 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-04-01 11:49 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 15:35 ` Kevin O'Connor
2016-04-01 16:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-04-01 18:41 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 18:59 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 19:04 ` Kevin O'Connor
2016-04-01 19:10 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 19:15 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 19:44 ` Kevin O'Connor
2016-04-01 20:25 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 20:05 ` Kevin O'Connor
2016-04-01 20:46 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 22:25 ` Kevin O'Connor
2016-04-02 7:51 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-02 5:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-04-01 15:08 ` Kevin O'Connor
2016-04-01 14:58 ` Kevin O'Connor
2016-04-01 15:06 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 15:14 ` Kevin O'Connor
2016-04-01 8:19 ` Richard W.M. Jones
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