Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 00/12] Guest startup time optimization

2016-09-12 Thread Peter Stuge
Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > * Initializing all pci devices (placing bars in address space and >programming them) can probably be skipped and left to the linux >kernel to handle. When the coreboot project started out, in 1999, that turned out not to be the case. I don't know if the situation ha

Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 00/12] Guest startup time optimization

2016-09-12 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > > AFAIK latest seabios already supports DMA. > > It's easy to add more config options for seabios > > if you are so inclined. > > Yes, I tried that, the fw_cfg overhead in SeaBios/linuxboot optrom is > already not a big issue for us. However, there are still some other > code in SeaBIOS n