Peter Stuge wrote: > > If my goal is the fastest boot time possible, while still > > supporting the basic system, would going to a Linux payload be the > > way to go? > > Maybe, but maybe not. If you are using flash media which does not > have a spin-up delay then it might actually be faster for another > payload to load the kernel off the drive using DMA.
The point being that the boot flash chip is slower than DMA access to an ATA flash drive, so loading a smaller bootloader from the boot flash plus the larger kernel from ATA flash is a net win, because loading the kernel from boot flash might be somewhat slow. I'm afraid FILO can't do ATA DMA. Would be great if it did. //Peter -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
