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Marcus Hähnel authored
Add a new option rom for the multiboot loader, using DMA transfers to copy
data instead of "rep insb".

This significantly lowers QEMU's startup latency by a factor of about 40,
for example, going from 30sec to 0.8sec when loading modules of 120MB
in size.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMarcus Hähnel <marcus.haehnel@kernkonzept.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAdam Lackorzynski <adam@l4re.org>
[Modified to keep the non-DMA code depending on #ifdef USE_FW_CFG_DMA;
 do not write below stack. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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