20 May
2010
20 May
'10
2:52 p.m.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:07:51AM +0200, Xavi Drudis Ferran wrote:
SeaBIOS is not slow - it is smaller than filo (both compressed and uncompressed) and loads and initializes faster than filo. During one of my tests, SeaBIOS was 1.5 seconds faster to the boot menu than filo.
I didn't mean SeaBIOS is slow. I meant loading it from disk would be slower than loading it from Flash. But from other replies I see there is not much of a use case for that.
Flash is usually pretty slow. On my epia-cn machine reads are done at around 2MB/s. It's not unusual to see SATA or USB drives that can read 10 times that rate (though drives frequently have a spin up delay).
-Kevin