Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/3] add option to generate small bios

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:36:13PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> This adds an option to generate a small bios,
> so that it's easy for people who want to
> generate binary compatible with QEMU 1.6
> and earlier (which used a 128K buffer).
>
> Default is 256K (for future QEMU).

No, this is not a good idea.  It doesn't actually work - different
compilers may be over 128K anyway, different options (eg, debug level)
will bring the size up over 128K, and it is meaningless for
xen/csm/coreboot.

-Kevin