My patch, plus the configuration and comments from your patch,
combined. Plus I tested it with libguestfs boot-analysis and it works
and is still fast.
Integrating this so it happens automatically when the user adds
-kernel on x86 seems quite complicated. The only way I could do it
was by adding #ifdef defined(__x86_64__) etc to vl.c, which doesn't
seem very nice. The problem is the machine type code doesn't know
that you're using -kernel.
Rich.
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>From 28a442fdf8036bde075c75088f8dae8d8568243a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjo...@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 11:35:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] bios: Add fast variant of SeaBIOS for use with -kernel on
x86.
This commit adds a fast variant of SeaBIOS called 'bios-fast.bin'.
It's designed to be the fastest (also the smallest, but that's not the
main aim) SeaBIOS that is just enough to boot a Linux kernel using the
-kernel option on i686 and x86_64.
This commit does not modify the -kernel option to use this. You have
to specify it by doing something like this:
-kernel vmlinuz -bios bios-fast.bin
Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com>
---
Makefile | 3 ++-
roms/Makefile | 4 +++-
roms/config.seabios-fast | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 roms/config.seabios-fast
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1d076a9..c4e939d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -389,7 +389,8 @@ common de-ch es fo fr-ca hu ja mk nl-be
pt sl tr \
bepo cz
ifdef INSTALL_BLOBS
-BLOBS=bios.bin bios-256k.bin sgabios.bin vgabios.bin vgabios-cirrus.bin \
+BLOBS=bios.bin bios-256k.bin bios-fast.bin \
+sgabios.bin vgabios.bin vgabios-cirrus.bin \
vgabios-stdvga.bin vgabios-vmware.bin vgabios-qxl.bin vgabios-virtio.bin \
acpi-dsdt.aml \
ppc_rom.bin openbios-sparc32 openbios-sparc64 openbios-ppc QEMU,tcx.bin
QEMU,cgthree.bin \
diff --git a/roms/Makefile b/roms/Makefile
index 7bd1252..26b0586 100644
--- a/roms/Makefile
+++ b/roms/Makefile
@@ -61,9 +61,11 @@ default:
@echo " slof -- update slof.bin"
@echo " u-boot.e500 -- update u-boot.e500"
-bios: build-seabios-config-seabios-128k build-seabios-config-seabios-256k
+bios: build-seabios-config-seabios-128k build-seabios-config-seabios-256k \
+ build-seabios-config-seabios-fast
cp seabios/builds/seabios-128k/bios.bin ../pc-bios/bios.bin
cp seabios/builds/seabios-256k/bios.bin ../pc-bios/bios-256k.bin
+ cp seabios/builds/seabios-fast/bios.bin ../pc-bios/bios-fast.bin
seavgabios: $(patsubst %,seavgabios-%,$(vgabios_variants))
diff --git a/roms/config.seabios-fast b/roms/config.seabios-fast
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fbb1ef8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roms/config.seabios-fast
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# The fastest SeaBIOS that can boot Linux using -kernel.
+
+# general stuff
+CONFIG_QEMU=y
+CONFIG_ROM_SIZE=128
+CONFIG_XEN=n
+CONFIG_THREADS=n
+CONFIG_WRITABLE_UPPERMEMORY=y
+
+# no input, no boot menu
+CONFIG_MOUSE=n
+CONFIG_KEYBOARD=n
+CONFIG_BOOTMENU=n
+CONFIG_BOOTSPLASH=n
+
+# hardware support we don't need
+CONFIG_LPT=n
+CONFIG_SERIAL=n
+CONFIG_USB=n
+CONFIG_DRIVES=n
+CONFIG_TCGBIOS=n
+CONFIG_VGAHOOKS=n
+
+# MPTABLE is required by Linux kernel, the others add only a
+# couple of milliseconds so we might as well have them
+CONFIG_PIRTABLE=y
+CONFIG_MPTABLE=y
+CONFIG_SMBIOS=y
+CONFIG_ACPI=y
+
+# no logging
+CONFIG_DEBUG_LEVEL=0
--
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