On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:07:51AM +0200, Xavi Drudis Ferran wrote: > > > > SeaBIOS is not slow - it is smaller than filo (both compressed and > > uncompressed) and loads and initializes faster than filo. During one > > of my tests, SeaBIOS was 1.5 seconds faster to the boot menu than > > filo. > > > > I didn't mean SeaBIOS is slow. I meant loading it from disk would be slower > than loading it from Flash. But from other replies I see there is not much > of a use case for that.
Flash is usually pretty slow. On my epia-cn machine reads are done at around 2MB/s. It's not unusual to see SATA or USB drives that can read 10 times that rate (though drives frequently have a spin up delay). -Kevin -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
