Dear Bastian, On 03/23/2018 09:07 AM, Bastian Blank wrote:
On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 08:16:11AM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:As for some users boot speed is quite important, shaving 400 ms off the boot time is quite nice.And then they use BIOS which is aweful slow in disk access, so the time is used instead to actually read the blocks from disk?
Sure, the majority of the systems have that problem of slow firmware, currently it’s UEFI firmware and not the BIOS anymore, and only a few have alternatives like coreboot or U-Boot. I do not see how that is related though to the bug report.
But as you brought it up, my Lenovo X60 the coreboot firmware takes less than 500 ms, and on the ASRock E350M1 around one second with SeaBIOS as payload.
Additionally, millions of laptops run coreboot on Google Chromebooks and Chromeboxes. So yes, there are devices out there, where you can get boot times to the login screen in well below ten seconds, and it’d be great if developers and users would focus on this issue too, that means, monitor/benchmark/instrument these things, document it, and report bugs and feature requests about this.
Kind regards, Paul