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pre-built coreboot images and documentation on how to flash them for Thinkpad Laptops
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Boot is slower than expected #78

Open lukateras opened 5 years ago

lukateras commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the project! Happily running on several ThinkPad X230s :-)

That said, boot (both free and non-free VGA) seems to take around 2 seconds more than other Coreboot+SeaBIOS derivatives I have access to (APU2, Librem 13, also Coreboot+Tianocore Toshiba swanky Chromebook). What could be the reason behind that?

Judging by https://www.seabios.org/Runtime_config and https://github.com/coreboot/seabios/blob/14221cd86eadba82255fdc55ed174d401c7a0a04/src/boot.c#L466, there is boot-menu-wait option that is set to 2.5 seconds by default. Since it is always possible to hold down Esc prior to boot, maybe that delay could be set to 0?

merge commented 5 years ago

I'm not sure. I think we really should leave users time to "press ESC". But there might still be ways to speed up things before that. Anyways, I'd be happy for hints or a patch :)

pgera commented 4 years ago

On my t530, I see a difference in warm reboot (fast) v/s cold reboot(slow). I'm talking about the delay before the splash, not the "press Esc" delay. This may be due to waiting for keyboard init.