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...
There is a lot of spam during linux bootup that strikes me as gratuitous techie garbage. It would be better to find a way of booting directly into the OpenWindows or some such.
Not wishing to be negative, but I would really like to ask Linus as to why he chose to have all that spam redirected to the screen at bootup. It is'nt very eyecatching.
We can get around this by hand-coding in some basic graphics primitives. Award BIOS managed to do it with the famous 'Energy Saver' trademark we all see when we power up our PC's...so it must be possible for our coders to capitalise on this kind of 'instant graphics'.
Bresenhams' algorithm and some other basic scan-conversion primitives are a must. (For more information, see 'Computer Graphics' by Foley et. Al...)
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