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This is pretty cool. What's the time spent on bootup? Hardware POST? I remember seeing some Linux can boot in under a second. It would be cool to see the bu
by ww520 7y ago
This is pretty cool.
What's the time spent on bootup? Hardware POST? I remember seeing some Linux can boot in under a second. It would be cool to see the business card come to life instantly.
- stefan_ 7y agoYou might know this and use it as a short hand, but just in case: ARM doesn't use a BIOS of any sort, so there is no POST, just a bunch of vendor blobs (burned into the chip) that do bootstrapping then jump to your bootloader. The biggest problem in his case is probably the 8 MiB serial flash; that is going to be rather slow to load from.
- ww520 7y agoGood to know.