On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 11:33:40AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjo...@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 <rjo...@redhat.com> > Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> > Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@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. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW
