the uni wrote:
Heavy finger, disregard last message...
I've been testing the new Moblin distro from linux, and it boots
incredibly quickly (~7 secs to desktop in KVM)
One irritation is that the bios takes up roughly half of that time.
I've managed to throw in a few ifdefs into the bios/vgabios to
get the screen cleared and the prompts to go away so that the first
thing that you see after KVM is launched is an xfce desktop.
This is a vast improvement in my opinion, but obviously one that's not
always wanted/needed.
It makes sense to me that if a --boot or --kernel parameter is given,
that the "press f12 for boot menu..." should not be shown.
Moreover, I think it makes sense to show no bios messages at all if
--kernel is given. This improves boot time by ~3 secs
on my machine, meaning I get a moblin xfce desktop in ~4 secs.
So here's my question: Is it posible to send a parameter to the bios?
I'd like to change the bios operation for the 2 parameters above, but
haven't found a way to do it.
Are you looking for the firmware configuration interface?
Look at bios/rombios32.c for functions qemu_cfg_* and constants
QEMU_CFG_* for the BIOS side of the game and qemu/hw/fw_cfg.[ch] for the
QEMU interface side (functions here are prefixed with fw_cfg_). So
define a new channel and send your data over. Be sure to consider
qemu-devel if you want to send patches.
Hope that helps,
Andre.
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