On Monday, April 06, 2015 11:22:18 PM Paul Menzel wrote: > 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 …”. > I meant "how much it actually does", not "how much it is capable of doing". I doubt you boot from USB all day long.
> > > 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. > I'm not geek enough to build GRUB2. Last time I did it, I was telepathically controlled by Vladimir via IRC. > Please let me understand your point better. I don’t see, why that size > difference is a problem? > This shouldn't even be questioned. Smaller is always better. Anyhow, the big issue is when you're running normal/fallback. > Do you have a system where a 200 kB GRUB payload doesn’t fit? I've had this issue on many occasions. Since I've gotten rid of MRC.bin on butterfly, I've been able to do SeaBIOS/Grub2 fallback/normal. Might need a bit of trimming to get to grub2/grub2. > Did you > measure any speed differences? (But as stated, SeaBIOS loads/starts GRUB > most of the time from the a storage medium.) > SeaBIOS, GRUB, or SeaBIOS + GRUB has always been fast for me. It's software that just works 99.99% of the time. > > Thanks, Alex -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
