Linux system startup is SLOW with linuxbios

[Daniel Haglund]

I just got linuxbios up and running. :) I am using a DoC with a K7SEM and a
Duron 750MHz. Things are working rather well but I have a performance
problem.

Currently I have the root filesystem on an IDE drive. When I boot using
LinuBIOS the RedHat startup sequence take a lot more time than when I use
the standard BIOS to boot.

My BogoMIPS dropped from 1500 to 1484 with LinuxBIOS but the startup time
increased much more than the BogoMIPS value warrants.

Does this have anything to do with L2 cache by any chance? Naturally I had
to comment out the #SORRY line in freebios/src/cpu/k7/cpufixup.c.

/Daniel