[coreboot] FILO bug disk not seen at ata-0 (Doesn't try to detect on ATA only SIL3114)

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:07:51AM +0200, Xavi Drudis Ferran wrote:
> >
> > SeaBIOS is not slow - it is smaller than filo (both compressed and
> > uncompressed) and loads and initializes faster than filo.  During one
> > of my tests, SeaBIOS was 1.5 seconds faster to the boot menu than
> > filo.
> >
> 
> I didn't mean SeaBIOS is slow. I meant loading it from disk would be slower
> than loading it from Flash. But from other replies I see there is not much
> of a use case for that.

Flash is usually pretty slow.  On my epia-cn machine reads are done at
around 2MB/s.  It's not unusual to see SATA or USB drives that can
read 10 times that rate (though drives frequently have a spin up
delay).

-Kevin