[coreboot] x60 : trying to boot to a debian in less than 2 seconds

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Tue Aug 26 00:24:41 CEST 2014


On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Paul Menzel
<paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Another approach would be to do it like the Chromium OS folks do it on
> the Google Chromebooks. In normal mode they do not initalize the graphic
> device (just place the Video BIOS/VGA Option ROM for VBT information),
> so you cannot see GRUB, and let just Linux initialize the graphics. Then
> they have a developer mode and only in this mode coreboot does graphics
> initialization.

That's actually slower than having coreboot do native graphics init.
That's why we did the coreboot graphics work in the first place.

ron



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