[LinuxBIOS] Fun easy question. 512Kb or 256Kb

Ronald G Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue Feb 7 18:18:16 CET 2006


Adam Talbot wrote:

> "Sending a byte out the serial port at 115200 is approx 80 times slower 
> than a ISA bios fetch. So you will have the most dramatic speed up by 
> nuking anything that writes to the serial port"
> 
> So if I turn off any serial console, that is fixed?  Does VGA bios have 
> the same problem?

vga bios is plenty fast.

ron





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