Hi, I'm in an embedded Linux project, and the board is Intel based with AMI Bios. Currently the bios loads in 22sec, and we would like to get it to ~3sec. I know that the commercial bios have roms that can be deleted. What is safe to ask the board/bios manufacturer to delete from the bios. Currently the bios has: usb vga,lvds intel ethernet sata ide
Thanks for your help, Kfir
2011/1/13 Kfir Lavi lavi.kfir@gmail.com:
Hi, I'm in an embedded Linux project, and the board is Intel based with AMI Bios. Currently the bios loads in 22sec, and we would like to get it to ~3sec. I know that the commercial bios have roms that can be deleted. What is safe to ask the board/bios manufacturer to delete from the bios. Currently the bios has: usb vga,lvds intel ethernet sata ide
I'm not a BIOS expert, but I'm sure, I could give a correct answer.
It depends on your requirements. For example, I have one PC which is booted by network (PXE). Also my primary way to setup a new machine is to use USB-flash as the boot-device (and images from boot.fedoraproject.org).
Kfir Lavi wrote:
Currently the bios loads in 22sec, and we would like to get it to ~3sec. I know that the commercial bios have roms that can be deleted.
I don't think you can succeed with this goal.
What is safe to ask the board/bios manufacturer to delete from the bios.
Come on, how can you possibly get any advice about that out of thin air? *You* must do some profiling, and determine *your* requirements. Maybe together with AMI. But that is usually very slow and very expensive.
You would probably be much better off switching to a board that coreboot supports.
//Peter
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