Yep. Keep it all hot. North/southbridge, controllers, everything. Skip POST. If something has changed we can just restart once it's warmed up. Anything that sti

Yep. Keep it all hot. North/southbridge, controllers, everything. Skip POST. If something has changed we can just restart once it's warmed up. Anything that still needs a traditional boot (eg a disk drive) we just be assumed to have not changed until proven otherwise. Fuck the MBR. Fuck ROM and BIOS and CMOS. If you don't need to do it between RAM frames, you don't need to do it until you're told to reboot. If you've been unpowered all day, or if your hardware has changed, or you're worried about security, then you can choose boot from scratch. The only other reason, IMO, is because the computer has just been put together. If all those parts can restore their previous configuration, all they have to do is signal "yep, I'm still in the same configuration" and we should be able to pick up where we left off (again, except for disk drives/ram/networking etc).