Hi Thierry, >> So all the probing and fiddling with the PC hardware has reached a point, >> where a machine with 3000% higher clocked x86 CPU boots Linux slower than >> a well-configured 68040 machine. A little bit crazy. > >No, very logical on the contrary: keep in mind that most of the hardware must >be awaited for while probing takes place (i.e. you have to include delay loops >in your probing code so that the hardware has the time to setup and reply your >queries).
Yep, but saying that, you also say something about the quality of the hardware. Especially as the reset was long gone and it had already been initialized before (by the BIOS). Peter
