Re: current status of the Via EPIA

[Andrew Ip]

Amaury,
> I own a via EPIA mobo that I use for GPS/music playing in my car.
> It currently takes about 50 seconds to boot into my program
> http://sxpert.esitcom.org/projects/navsys/
> I am wondering if linux bios would help me in accelerating the boot time

It takes about 1 sec to get to kernel loading.  Also, IRQ is fixed fixed.  If 
you don't need vga support, LinuxBIOS is a very good alternative.

-Andrew