[LinuxBIOS] Console debug (boot time)

Richard Smith smithbone at gmail.com
Wed Apr 13 19:56:15 CEST 2005


On 4/13/05, Adam Talbot <talbotx at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hummm.  So if console slows boot time, how about loading the vga bios stuff.
> Does this slow down the overall boot time of linux bios?
> -Adam

Yep.  Its got run the factory vgabios which has a lot of delays in it
and writeing to video memory is slow in general although no where near
as slow as writeing to the serial port.

-- 
Richard A. Smith




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