On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 11:18:30AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > > I wonder how we can make use of this in qemu and downstream distros? > > Can we have a bios-min.bin which is used with -kernel boots? > > We already build two seabios roms: one full featued and one slightly > stripped down to keep it below 128k, for backward compatibility with old > machine types. > > Adding a third config for -kernel boot should be easy. For that use > case we can probably also turn on seabios logging to the serial console > and drop sgabios. We don't need input (no boot menu) and we also don't > need to hook into int10 (no grub/ipxe using that for output).
SeaBIOS logging is slow (or more likely, serial output is slow). And sgabios is useful for debugging. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW