Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 4/5] acpi: arm: add fw_cfg device node to dsdt

[Peter Maydell]

On 30 September 2015 at 11:21, Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden> wrote:
> However: if Gabriel has no access to actual aarch64 hardware (ie. cannot
> run KVM guests), then I don't think he should bother. Booting just the
> UEFI firmware on qemu-system-aarch64 with TCG acceleration is fine, but
> for checking "/proc/iomem", he'd really need to boot into guest Linux,
> and *that* takes absolutely forever with TCG.

If it actually takes forever that's a bug of some sort I think.
TCG isn't all that snappy but it shouldn't take more than a few
minutes to boot and it should be at least usably responsive on
the command line once you get there. (Best not to try to boot
into a GUI, though.)

-- PMM