[OpenBIOS] Reducing QEMU's CPU usage

Blue Swirl blauwirbel at gmail.com
Sat Sep 29 14:10:56 CEST 2012


On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Programmingkid
<programmingkidx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to make QEMU not use 100% of the CPU time when OpenBIOS is just at the console? My guess is OpenBIOS is in some kind of loop, polling the keyboard for events, when it should probably be interrupt based. Anybody have a clue as to what we need to change?

Probably pretty major changes. Also on some architectures, there's
just no way or no easy way to halt the CPU and wait for interrupts.

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