On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 10/22/14 20:05, Jordan Justen wrote: >> Laszlo, >> >> Seabios starts to boot the OS nearly instantaneously. OVMF takes >> several seconds. >> >> I think in OVMF today this is mainly due to timeouts waiting for a >> non-existent floppy and/or CD ROM. >> >> This series adds a few more seconds waiting on the boot screen >> timeout. This seems to be heading in the wrong direction in terms of >> boot time. > > I can try lowering PcdPlatformBootTimeOut to zero. According to the > PCD's documentation, that's a valid value, and on a second look, even > PlatformBdsEnterFrontPage() / ShowProgress() support a TimeoutDefault==0. > > This would even shave off 0.3 seconds from the boot time (without > breaking the behavior when the user hits a key on the splash screen). > > Calling PlatformBdsEnterFrontPage() unconditionally seems unavoidable, > according to the advice I got from Eric. Otherwise the OsIndications > variable will not be picked up. > > I considered briefly to look at OsIndications directly in our > PlatformBdsPolicyBehavior() function, but that would be very wrong. > > So, how about the patchset with PcdPlatformBootTimeOut|0 ?
Sure, if 0 means 0 time. I think it might mean infinity. -Jordan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/edk2-devel
