Re: [Qemu-devel] Question about qemu firmware configuration (fw_cfg) device

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:15:43PM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> That what we are talking about, no? We are trying to find faster way to
> load kernel/initrd and stay architectural. Honestly I would expect much
> greater speedup from Richard's approach like 2 seconds vs 8 seconds. It
> is hard to justify code complication just for 1 second speedup.

I've no idea where this "8 seconds" comes from.  Total boot time
currently is < 8 seconds even without my patch.  My patch takes it
from 7.5 seconds to 6.5 seconds.

Rich.

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