[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/3] add option to generate small bios
Kevin O'Connor
kevin at koconnor.net
Thu Sep 26 02:08:56 CEST 2013
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
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