[OpenBIOS] could we get better performance?

[David Woodhouse]

johnl at meer.net said:
> I'm curious what effect a given implementation of a BIOS has on system
> performance.  From what I understand (and I understand only a little
> about the BIOS), DOS et al. use the BIOS functions much more than
> Linux, which may just use them to boot and then leave the BIOS
> functionality behind and use its own drivers.

I suspect that the main performance increase would be under DOS and Windows, 
yes. Take a look at http://www.mrbios.com/proof.htm for an idea of what we're 
aiming at there.

> Is performance affected more by the particular settings that the BIOS
> can make (memory access, etc.) that would change performance? 

Under Linux, this will be the major factor - we can offer all the more esoteric
settings that other BIOSes don't support, so we can eke a little more out of
the beast here too.

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