On 03.05.2007 19:10, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070503 19:03]: >> According to Mitch Bradley, switching away from VSA saved ~10 seconds >> during early bootup. > > This makes me think there was something pretty much broken. > The GX1 I have here does not even need 10s before it starts loading the > OS, and it has VSA in place (not LinuxBIOS though)
I may have misunderstood his mail back then. However, switching from LinuxBIOS(+)VSA to OFW(-)VSA reduced time from poweron to active display by ~13 seconds. >> I'd like to split the VSA into "useful" chunks and "unneeded" chunks. >> VGA/sound emulation is now unnecessary since Linux has drivers for >> the native hardware. Bootloaders might want VGA, though. >> However, PCI emulation makes some things much easier IMO. > > So do distributions. Loading a geodefb in a non-embedded platform is > most likely not going to happen, unless someone tunes the system. Can we detect that something uses VGA and enable the VGA VSA on demand? Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
