On 27 Aug 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Ronald G Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov writes:
OK, looking around, it's about what I expected.
However one thing we might be able to use: EFI is called from something called SAL. SAL is real low-level stuff you will never see the source to that does all the horrible stuff that Intel won't tell us how to do.
You don't need EFI. You need something to link to SAL that replaces EFI. I think that's our hook.
As a start perhaps. But there is only one thing I have seen that is slower than the native L440GX BIOS. An Itanium Box. And judging by when the video screen came on it looks like it was probably in that mysterious SAL code.
And while I have no problem with BIOS code taking it's time. On a personal level I hate to work with slow BIOS's. And when things are unreasonably slow I suspect that there is something that just doesn't work running in there.
There was a post on /. today about a BIOS that boots in .8 sec. That seems to be pretty good... Now all we need to do is speed up linux boot...
Chris.
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