The Lab

In the world of software development, consistency is key. A recent update to U-Boot Concept takes a solid step in that direction by restructuring how it handles emulation targets. This change makes life easier for developers working across different processor architectures. Previously there were inconsistencies in the configuration system (Kconfig). For example, enabling QEMU emulation…

A few weeks ago I took a look at Qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU which can boot in milliseconds. Qboot was written by Paolo Bonzini and dates from 2015 and there is an LWN article with the original announcement. I tried it on my machine and it booted in QEMU (with kvm) in…