Hi, > > With firmware qemu exposes kernel + initrd (and with this patch shim > > too) via fw_cfg, and the firmware can pick it up from there and run > > it (instead of trying to boot via disk / cdrom / network). > > I don't really think of the latter as being direct-boot, and > nor does our documentation:
> # - specify a firmware and pass a hint to the kernel to boot > # - direct kernel image boot That is a technical detail which doesn't make much of a difference from the end user perspective. And often people talk about "direct kernel boot" without drawing a line between these two cases, because the user-visible behavior is pretty much identical: You pass a kernel to qemu via '-kernel', and it gets booted ... take care, Gerd
