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

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 08:10:48PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 03:04:15PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > Otherwise, it doesn't make
> > sense that disabling CONFIG_BOOTORDER=n would change the boot time.
> 
> Could it be explained by it avoiding slow access to qemu fw_cfg?

Also, disabling CONFIG_BOOTORDER means that CONFIG_BOOT is disabled,
since CONFIG_BOOTMENU and CONFIG_BOOTSPLASH were also disabled, and
those are the only other things requiring CONFIG_BOOT.  Could that
explain it?

Rich.

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