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

Paul Menzel paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net
Tue Aug 26 08:45:08 CEST 2014


Am Montag, den 25.08.2014, 15:24 -0700 schrieb ron minnich:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Paul Menzel 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.

Sorry for getting that wrong and thank you for the clarification. Could
you please elaborate about the difference between normal and developer
mode regarding graphics setup?


Thanks,

Paul
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