3-4 seconds looks a long time, should uncompression of few 100 KBbytes take that long. Also, could someone please elaborate the signifigance of biosbase set with this reference.
Regards Deepak
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Gehlbach" steve@nexpath.com To: "Shubhangi Jadhav" shubhangi.jadhav@patni.com Cc: "LinuxBIOS" linuxbios@clustermatic.org Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 8:47 PM Subject: Re: Delay in copying Linuxbios to ram
Shubhangi Jadhav wrote:
While trying to boot using linuxbios , I get a message " Copying
LinuxBIOS
to ram " and then the system pauses for 3-4 secs, before printing the
next
message - "Jumping to Linuxbios" Could someone tell me what causes this delay, does the process of uncompressing and copying linuxbios to RAM take this long? Any suggestions on how to reduce this delay?
Sounds like the decompression time. Try disabling compression (option CONFIG_COMPRESS=0) and see if it speeds up. What is biosbase set to (default is 0xf0000)? It might be caching is not set for the region of your flash, since it is executing from flash at this point.
-Steve
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