Ivan Krstić wrote: > On Aug 24, 2007, at 7:25 AM, Kein Yuan wrote: > > >> So in short words, OLPC is using LinuxBIOS to do low level HW init, >> then transfer control to OFW, which also acting as boot loader to >> load Linux OS, right? >> > > Correct. > Sorry, not correct.
LinuxBIOS is not present at all. The low-level init is now done with a few lines of assembly language code and a big table of register values. Removing LinuxBIOS was what made it possible for me to get the startup time down to a couple of seconds, and to do the firmware part of resume in a few milliseconds. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
