Re: BIOS shadowing/cacheing

[Ian Eure]

The only time this might be useful is during the first install on an older
system- it can take a while to load a 600-700k kernel from a floppy; several
minutes on some 386 boxes. Enabling the system BIOS shadowing can speed this
up significantly, then it can be disabled when the install is done.

Alistair Riddell wrote:

> No, in fact it could be seen as a disadvantage in that it uses up memory.
> Since linux does not use the BIOS except in the early stages of booting,
> there would be no performace advantage.
>
> On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, yuri mironoff wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> >   Are there any advantages to shadowing/cacheing the BIOS under Linux?
> > (Be it system or adapter)
> >
> >                               Thank you very much in advance,
> >
> >
> >                               Y.
> >
>
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