Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (581 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sid Boyce wrote:

> Per Jessen wrote:
> > Rajko M. wrote:
> >
> > > Not long time ago, I posted to project mail list question is it
> > > possible to boot in a 5 seconds, like described in:
> > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=869&num=1
> > >
> > > and here is the article that explains what to do.
> > > http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/
> > >
> > > It is not cookbook, but gives ideas.
> >
> > If you're looking to boot really really fast, LinuxBIOS is also
> > something to look into.  http://www.coreboot.org/
> >
> > "3 seconds to Linux console".
> >
> >
> > /Per Jessen, Zürich
>
> I've followed the coreboot (linuxbios as-was) development since the
> early and it is limited to the number of motherboards and chipsets.

I've also followed it on and off - the current list of supported boards
is actually quite long:  http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards

> When I was brave enough some months ago to ask v2 to do a bios
> operation (either read or dump) on my unsupported motherboard, it
> obviously threw up an error message, so doesn't warrant serious
> consideration at  present. Regards Sid.

It depends on your objectives, methinks.  If boot up speed is paramount,
you _have_ to look at coreboot, IMHO.  


/Per Jessen, Zürich

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