On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 10:37:11AM +0200, Sergio Lopez wrote: > > Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> writes: > > > On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 04:47:03PM +0200, Sergio Lopez wrote: > >> Add a helper function (mptable_generate) for generating an Intel > >> MPTable according to version 1.4 of the specification. > >> > >> This is needed for the microvm machine type implementation. > > > > Firmware should do this IMHO (qboot or seabios). > > Microvm does a number of things that are typically done by the firmware, > as a way to reduce boot time.
Whenever the firmware or qemu does the initialization shouldn't make that much of a difference. Firmware needs to fetch stuff from fw_cfg, which shouldn't be much overhead when using dma mode. cheers, Gerd
