Delay in copying Linuxbios to ram

[Steve Gehlbach]

Shubhangi Jadhav wrote:
> 	While trying to boot using linuxbios , I get a message " Copying LinuxBIOS
> to ram " and then the system pauses for 3-4 secs, before printing the next
> message - "Jumping to Linuxbios"
> 	Could someone tell me what causes this delay, does the process of
> uncompressing and copying linuxbios to RAM take this long?
> 	Any suggestions on how to reduce this delay? 

Sounds like the decompression time.  Try disabling compression (option 
CONFIG_COMPRESS=0) and see if it speeds up.  What is biosbase set to 
(default is 0xf0000)?  It might be caching is not set for the region of 
your flash, since it is executing from flash at this point.

-Steve