Re: [Qemu-devel] Why is SeaBIOS used with -kernel?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Minimal SeaBIOS (+ CONFIG_MPTABLE):
http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/min-seabios.txt

Stock SeaBIOS from qemu:
http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/stock-seabios.txt

Both files best viewed with `less -r'.

It does appear to considerably reduce SeaBIOS time.

Rich.

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