On 23 August 2011 15:37, Thomas Backlund <[email protected]> wrote: >> Indeed. >> What's more gaining 20s on a server when the IBM uefi/firmware take >> *minutes* to >> setup the machine is worthless. > > I remember a SGI guy on LKML a while back complaining that it took > ~2 hours to boot one of their _big_ servers (4096 cpus, a few TB RAM). > > After a patch that fixed the "bug", it brought the boot time down to 30 > minutes and he was happy again :)
I remember that one :-) But no one in the communauty can do anything about IBM's UEFI...
