Re: [OpenBIOS] Re: boy is EFI a kludge!

[Eric W. Biederman]

Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Chris Maresca wrote:
> 
> > There was a post on /. today about a BIOS that boots in .8 sec.  That
> > seems to be pretty good...  Now all we need to do is speed up linux
> > boot...
> 
> 
> we talked about that on the linuxbios list. That was a stupid publicity
> stunt. .8 sec is actually pretty slow.

Well I wouldn't call it slow.  I'd say someone has achieved a
reasonable BIOS boot time with a stock BIOS.

Eric