My notes on this patch: * It applies and compiles fine with current qemu on Linux/x86_64 host. However after building I had to do:
cp pc-bios/optionrom/linuxboot_dma.bin pc-bios/ I wasn't sure if that was supposed to be done automatically. * It reduces libguestfs appliance boot time by about ½ second (2.00 s -> 1.53 s), so that's excellent. * Overhead of BIOS-to-kernel drops from nearly 50% to under 20% of the total libguestfs appliance boot time. SeaBIOS is still using 0.27 seconds, of which at least 0.12 seconds is PCI bus scanning. Anyway, all in all, a good change! 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
