Why bios(generic) is slow?

[hcyun at etri.re.kr]

Hi 

Can you tell me why generic bios is so slow compared to linuxbios. 
In other word, why linuxbios is fast? 
I think "do little thing" is not enough to explain x10 time difference. 
What does bios do other than linuxbios does and where it spend so much
time? 

Regard, 
Heechul 

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HeeChul Yun,          
Embedded S/W Team at ETRI
phone: +82-42-860-1673
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