[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] SeaBIOS booting time optimization
Gerd Hoffmann
kraxel at redhat.com
Mon Nov 19 09:48:55 CET 2018
Hi,
> I'm investigating the SeaBIOS booting time, to understand if we can
> reduce the boot time in some cases (e.g. legacy hardware is not
> needed). I think this can be interesting also for NEMU developers.
> The goal is to have only one image of SeaBIOS configurable at runtime
> to reduce the boot time, avoiding unnecessary initialization.
Why at runtime? What is bad with two images? With a runtime option
you probably need some way to enable the "fastboot" hint for seabios,
because some optimizations (like skipping ps/2 initialization) breaks
functionality. So it must be opt-in so you can enable it if you know
your use case is fine with that. But "qemu -boot fast=on" isn't much
different from "qemu -bios seabios-fastboot.bin" after all ...
> Any pointers or suggestions would be helpful.
seabios could try to skip initializing hardware without bootindex with
"qemu -boot menu=off,strict=on".
mmconfig support? I think that would reduce the number of vmexits
needed for pci initialization.
cheers,
Gerd
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