[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi > > Can you tell me why generic bios is so slow compared to linuxbios. > In other word, why linuxbios is fast? > I think "do little thing" is not enough to explain x10 time difference. > What does bios do other than linuxbios does and where it spend so much > time?
I have wondered that and looked, and on some desktop systems boot up with a standard BIOS is something like the time LinuxBIOS takes. But for server systems, and other lower volume systems I suspect someone just does a lousy job. Beyond that. The easy things to mess up are things like the MTRRs. If they are not turned on at the appropriate time you can easily get a 10x slowdown. Eric _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
