[SeaBIOS] Seabios
Kevin O'Connor
kevin at koconnor.net
Mon Jan 25 05:24:16 CET 2010
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 05:24:24PM +0100, congedete at voila.fr wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It seems Seabios is still running after jumping to the boot sector.
> Why is the application not finalized in call_boot_entry for example
> ? Disk operations are handled until linux or windows boots because
> Seabios is still running which is unnecessary. It slows Grub2 or
> Windows Boot Manager I think.
After jumping to the OS, SeaBIOS only runs when the OS calls it, or
one of its hardware irq handlers runs. This is a requirement for
proper operation.
Why do you think this slows down your machine?
-Kevin
>
> Are you working on such an improvement or is it a known problem ?
>
> Hope this helps.
>
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