On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 09:52:49AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 04:31:41PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
Dear Gerd,
On 2021-03-23 15:18, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
Add a config option for fast device init (i.e. skip non-bootable devices). This optimization breaks boot in some rare configurations, specifically in case the boot loader needs access to secondary disks.
Thank you for the patch. Could you please elaborate and describe your test setup and how much the boot time is decreased?
Have no numbers.
Note that optimization is already in 1.14 and this only adds a config option to turn it *off*.
Unfortunately, I missed the initial email due to seabios mailing list problems a few weeks ago.
What's the reason to add a config option for this setting? We typically make these choices at runtime using settings from fwcfg.
Cheers, -Kevin