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

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 01/04/2016 10:02, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> > echo -e 
>> > 'CONFIG_USB=n\nCONFIG_DRIVES=n\nCONFIG_KEYBOARD=n\nCONFIG_MOUSE=n\nCONFIG_WRITABLE_UPPERMEMORY=y\nCONFIG_TCGBIOS=n\nCONFIG_PIRTABLE=n\nCONFIG_MPTABLE=n\nCONFIG_SMBIOS=n\nCONFIG_ACPI=n\nCONFIG_DEBUG_LEVEL=0'
>> >  > .config
>> > make olddefconfig
>> > make
>> > 
>> > What time do you get with the above stripped down seabios (the
>> > generated bios is in out/bios.bin)?
> It's a bit unexpected: The kernel (not SeaBIOS) crashes or hangs
> during virtio-scsi sensing.  See attached.  Any idea what I need to
> enable?

At least ACPI (I would also add mptable and SMBIOS).

Paolo