EPIA-M startup times

[Dmitry Borisov]

Guys,
Just wanted to have your estimate about startup times for EPIA-M mobo.
ATM it takes about 9 secs to go to payload. 7 secs to go to splash. Which seems to be really high values.
Does anyone can say what it would be if everything is "perfect" ?
How much time at minimum the BIOS can take assuming RAM, VGA and PCI initialized properly ?

If the answer would be 4 secs in ideal case, I'll invest some time to tighten it up... If 9 secs is a minimum, then...

Any suggestions ?
Dmitry/

[Larry Matter]

> Guys,
> Just wanted to have your estimate about startup times for EPIA-M mobo.
> ATM it takes about 9 secs to go to payload.

Hmm.  I'm seeing about 5 seconds from power on until I get an etherboot
message.  This is on an EPIA MEII 6000.  I don't have the vga bios in
there, would that account for the difference?

Then etherboot prints out:
Analyzing Media type,this will take several seconds........OK

It doesn't actually take very long, but it bothers me anyway :-)

It's about 18-20 seconds until the kernel starts all the way up and
complains about my lack of a valid NFS root.

Larry

[ron minnich]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Dmitry Borisov wrote:
> ATM it takes about 9 secs to go to payload.

yikes!

I think it is time to revive Ollie's serial post + tsc, which for some 
reason went away. 

That's nuts.
> 7 secs to go to splash. Which seems to be really high values.
> Does anyone can say what it would be if everything is "perfect" ?

1 second to go to payload is pretty good. 9 seconds is really odd.

we need to start tracing timing again.

ron