current status of the Via EPIA
Andrew Ip
aip at cwlinux.com
Fri Jan 10 09:11:01 CET 2003
Amaury,
> I own a via EPIA mobo that I use for GPS/music playing in my car.
> It currently takes about 50 seconds to boot into my program
> http://sxpert.esitcom.org/projects/navsys/
> I am wondering if linux bios would help me in accelerating the boot time
It takes about 1 sec to get to kernel loading. Also, IRQ is fixed fixed. If
you don't need vga support, LinuxBIOS is a very good alternative.
-Andrew
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