From: "Javier Martín" <lordhabbit@gmail.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LZMA support in i386-pc kernel
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:11:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1215115894.26019.1.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca0f59980807031259u45db8185k9964b1e7c5d02ac1@mail.gmail.com>
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El vie, 04-07-2008 a las 03:59 +0800, Bean escribió:
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Isaac Dupree
> <id@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> wrote:
> > by the way, is LZMA decoding slow enough to be noticable on old machines,
> > every boot time? (say, more than 1 second to decode core.img?)
>
> The code is highly optimized for size, speed may hurt a little bit.
> But anyway, today's machine should have no problem with it. Besides,
> the time spent to load font file or a true color splash image may well
> exceed it
Besides, on old machines there is also the possibility of using LZO - I
doubt someone would try to put a setup which required embedding
[biosdisk pc raid lvm ext2], which is what pushed core.img over the
limit, on a 80386.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-03 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-02 13:39 [PATCH] LZMA support in i386-pc kernel Bean
2008-07-02 14:42 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-02 15:11 ` Bean
2008-07-02 16:00 ` Bean
2008-07-03 18:24 ` Marco Gerards
2008-07-03 18:56 ` Bean
2008-07-03 14:06 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-02 17:50 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-07-02 18:27 ` Bean
2008-07-02 18:45 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-07-03 19:37 ` Isaac Dupree
2008-07-03 19:59 ` Bean
2008-07-03 20:11 ` Javier Martín [this message]
2008-07-13 2:03 ` Bean
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