[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] qemu: fast boot when linuxboot optionrom is used

Stefan Hajnoczi stefanha at gmail.com
Mon Nov 26 09:48:18 CET 2018


On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 2:09 PM Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare at redhat.com> wrote:
> Speed up the boot phase when qemu uses "linuxboot" optionrom
> (qemu -kernel) and the boot-menu is not required.
> Under these conditions we can skip the setup of devices and VGA,
> because they will be initialized (if they are required) during
> the Linux boot phase.

Please include benchmark results in the commit description so the
improvement is quantified and recorded in the commit history.

Thanks,
Stefan



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