[LinuxBIOS] etherboot/filo + sata startup timing

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Ronald G Minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> [060425 00:02]:
> this problem goes back to our very first boot some six years ago. Amazing.
> 
> ATA has outrageous boot delays. I'm sorry to see that SATA has them too. 
> I have no good idea how to fix this, unless we can train FILO to know 
> that we're coming into boot from power on reset.

What's needed here? Just keep on polling until either a couple more
seconds are gone or we finally start seeing the drive?

What features does the etherboot filo have that the official one does
not? I'd like to merge those, as file-pre-0.5 has a lot of interesting 
stuff that never went into etherboot (and etherboot is a pita to build 
compared to filo at least)

Stefan

-- 
coresystems GmbH · Brahmsstr. 16 · D-79104 Freiburg i. Br.
      Tel.: +49 761 7668825 · Fax: +49 761 7664613
Email: info at coresystems.de  · http://www.coresystems.de/