On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 08:10:11PM +0300, ValdikSS via Grub-devel wrote: > GRUB2 limits number of sectors read at once in LBA mode to the > number reported in CHS disk geometry by BIOS. > This is unnecessary, as IBM/MS INT13 Extensions does not have > such limit and it is safe to read up to 127 sectors in a single call. > > This fixes greatly increased boot times on WYSE C10LE x86 thin > client with Phoenix bios. > > See: > https://lore.kernel.org/grub-devel/d42a11fa-2a59-b5e7-08b1-d2c60444b...@valdikss.org.ru/ > > ValdikSS (2): > disk: read up to 63 sectors in LBA mode > disk: increase sector size up to 127 for LBA reads
After reading whole discussion about this patch set I think it is quite safe to take both patches into the release. If we realy want to be on the safe side we can drop the second one and merge it after the release. Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
