Dear Alexandru,
Am Montag, den 06.04.2015, 14:07 -0700 schrieb Alexandru Gagniuc: > On Monday, April 06, 2015 10:46:32 PM Paul Menzel wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, den 26.03.2015, 11:54 -0700 schrieb Alexandru Gagniuc: > > > On Thursday, March 26, 2015 07:53:04 AM Paul Menzel wrote: > > > > The file is now 578K big and in CBFS the compressed size is a little > > > > over 200 KB. > > > > > > I never understood how grub2 can do less than seabios but be much larger. > > > OK, you caught me! grub2 can read files off a disk. > > > > So I don’t know where this GRUB bashing > Bashing? For noticing that GRUB is larger than SeaBIOS? Then I misunderstood/misinterpreted: “… how grub2 can do less than seabios …”. > > Some more great features and modules: > > > > 1. GRUB gives you a command line interface. The time-out can be set to 0. > > 2. Debugging with lspci, lsacpi, setpci, … > > 3. Instrumentation with boottime, cacheinfo, … > > 4. Show CBMEM console with `cbmemc`. > > 5. Show CBMEM time stamps with `coreboot_boottime`. > > 6. Support for coreboot systems with native graphics support. > > I know very well what GRUB2 is capable of. > > > And the cherry on top: If you don’t need a functionality, for example in > > production after development, most of it is provided through modules. > > Sure. You can trim off some of the fat. If you know how to trim enough so > that > it's comparable in size to SeaBIOS, please let me know. I will. Please let me understand your point better. I don’t see, why that size difference is a problem? Do you have a system where a 200 kB GRUB payload doesn’t fit? Did you measure any speed differences? (But as stated, SeaBIOS loads/starts GRUB most of the time from the a storage medium.) Thanks, Paul
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