On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 10:45:23AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
Hi,
The conclusion is that the main bottleneck to boot QEMU is fw_cfg.
https://www.kraxel.org/cgit/qemu/log/?h=rebase/fw-cfg-dma-wip
Some experimental (and untested) bits implementing a dma interface for
fw_cfg (also some
Hi,
The conclusion is that the main bottleneck to boot QEMU is fw_cfg.
https://www.kraxel.org/cgit/qemu/log/?h=rebase/fw-cfg-dma-wip
Some experimental (and untested) bits implementing a dma interface for
fw_cfg (also some unrelated fw_cfg stuff).
You might want try wire that up for x86 and
On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 09:10:14 +0100
Stefan Hajnoczi stefa...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Kevin O'Connor ke...@koconnor.net
wrote:
On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 03:12:14PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Kevin O'Connor
ke...@koconnor.net wrote:
On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 03:44:33PM +0200, Marc Marí wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 09:10:14 +0100
Stefan Hajnoczi stefa...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Kevin O'Connor ke...@koconnor.net
wrote:
On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 03:12:14PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
On Fri, Jul
On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 11:43:22AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
If you want to optimize for the Linux special case then you should
not be using anything BIOS-related at all.
There seems to be a common misunderstanding that supporting the BIOS
negatively impacts boot times. This is not so - the
On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote:
If you want to optimize for the Linux special case then you should
not be using anything BIOS-related at all.
Good idea. The 32-bit or 64-bit kernel entry point should be used
instead of the 16-bit entry point.
My reading of
On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Kevin O'Connor ke...@koconnor.net wrote:
On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 10:33:56AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
Hi,
qboot (https://github.com/bonzini/qboot) is a stripped down firmware
providing only what is needed to boot a Linux kernel on x86. I wonder
if there is
Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
Hi,
qboot (https://github.com/bonzini/qboot) is a stripped down firmware
providing only what is needed to boot a Linux kernel on x86.
Incredible, you have re-invented coreboot!
Well, maybe not, it is Red Hat after all.
How about putting your efforts into the existing
On 03/07/2015 11:43, Peter Stuge wrote:
Hi,
qboot (https://github.com/bonzini/qboot) is a stripped down firmware
providing only what is needed to boot a Linux kernel on x86.
Incredible, you have re-invented coreboot!
I'm pretty sure I didn't, unless you count reusing the cbfs format as
