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

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 01:21:38PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/04/2016 13:20, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > +# MPTABLE is required by Linux kernel, the others add only a
> > +# couple of milliseconds so we might as well have them
> > +CONFIG_PIRTABLE=y
> > +CONFIG_MPTABLE=y
> > +CONFIG_SMBIOS=y
> > +CONFIG_ACPI=y
> > +
> 
> MPTABLE is only required is you don't have ACPI.

True .. however for speed reasons libguestfs uses acpi=off.  It saves
us about 190 ms.  So we need MPTABLE.

Rich.

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