[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] fw_cfg: Implement fast "blit" operation for rapidly copying in kernel, initrd [etc] into the guest

[Richard W.M. Jones]

These two patches implement a faster way to copy the kernel and initrd
data into the guest.  The guest can set up a blit address and then
issue a blit command in order to tell qemu to copy the whole of the
configuration data into the predefined area of memory.

This saves a couple of seconds of boot time when you have very large
initrd images.

Rich.

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