Cool, all good things to know. I will post all this information, and all then numbers I can get under the FAQ, when we get a running version of the EPIA-M code. Thx -Adam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Smith" smithbone@gmail.com To: "Adam Talbot" talbotx@comcast.net Cc: linuxbios@openbios.org Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 10:56 AM Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Console debug (boot time)
On 4/13/05, Adam Talbot talbotx@comcast.net wrote:
Hummm. So if console slows boot time, how about loading the vga bios stuff. Does this slow down the overall boot time of linux bios? -Adam
Yep. Its got run the factory vgabios which has a lot of delays in it and writeing to video memory is slow in general although no where near as slow as writeing to the serial port.