Re: [SeaBIOS] Reducing SeaBIOS kernel entry time

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Kevin O'Connor  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  wrote:
> > > I took a look a month or so ago:
> > >
> > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/136207
> > >
> > > Last test I ran I had SeaBIOS down to 16ms (not including the time to
> > > deploy or jump to the linux kernel).  More reductions are also
> > > possible - the above was just with Kconfig settings.
> > >
> > > Let me know if you want more info on how I did that.
> >
> > That sounds interesting.  Do you have a .config or git branch?
>
> See attached SeaBIOS config.  I profiled the results following the
> directions at:
>
> http://www.seabios.org/Debugging#Timing_debug_messages

Thanks, we'll share the results we get.

Stefan