On Monday, April 06, 2015 11:22:18 PM Paul Menzel wrote:
Dear Alexandru,
Am Montag, den 06.04.2015, 14:07 -0700 schrieb Alexandru Gagniuc:
On Monday, April 06, 2015 10:46:32 PM Paul Menzel wrote:
Am Donnerstag, den 26.03.2015, 11:54 -0700 schrieb Alexandru Gagniuc:
On Thursday, March 26, 2015 07:53:04 AM Paul Menzel wrote:
The file is now 578K big and in CBFS the compressed size is a little over 200 KB.
I never understood how grub2 can do less than seabios but be much larger. OK, you caught me! grub2 can read files off a disk.
So I don’t know where this GRUB bashing
Bashing? For noticing that GRUB is larger than SeaBIOS?
Then I misunderstood/misinterpreted: “… how grub2 can do less than seabios …”.
I meant "how much it actually does", not "how much it is capable of doing". I doubt you boot from USB all day long.
And the cherry on top: If you don’t need a functionality, for example in production after development, most of it is provided through modules.
Sure. You can trim off some of the fat. If you know how to trim enough so that it's comparable in size to SeaBIOS, please let me know.
I will.
I'm not geek enough to build GRUB2. Last time I did it, I was telepathically controlled by Vladimir via IRC.
Please let me understand your point better. I don’t see, why that size difference is a problem?
This shouldn't even be questioned. Smaller is always better. Anyhow, the big issue is when you're running normal/fallback.
Do you have a system where a 200 kB GRUB payload doesn’t fit?
I've had this issue on many occasions. Since I've gotten rid of MRC.bin on butterfly, I've been able to do SeaBIOS/Grub2 fallback/normal. Might need a bit of trimming to get to grub2/grub2.
Did you measure any speed differences? (But as stated, SeaBIOS loads/starts GRUB most of the time from the a storage medium.)
SeaBIOS, GRUB, or SeaBIOS + GRUB has always been fast for me. It's software that just works 99.99% of the time.
Thanks,
Alex