On Jan 5, 2008 2:27 PM, Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Many seconds, though just scanning for an 8 byte signature at a 16byte > aligned address?
it's depressing, but yes. It's also surprising. > > That's a max of 32k string compares for every file that is _not_ found. > Otherwise the number of compares is as high as the number of files in > the lar minus 1. (ie. below 10) no, it walks all of flash. see lib/lar.c -- or it seems to, it takes so long. > > We should fix linuxbios, so we do not look for files that are not there. > rather than invent broken pseudo files. works for me ... how? ron -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
