look at this: samsung nc10 bootchart with mobil V2

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:07:44PM -0500, Brian Maly wrote:

> All UEFI systems Ive worked with boot incredibly fast. And further the Intel
> Moblin V2 Core's feature Fastboot on top of being UEFI (read the specs on this
> hardware). Further, all LinuxBIOS systems Ive worked with boot just as fast.
> Its not smoke and mirrors. Systems are completely capable of booting this
> quickly. Believe what you want though.

The latest Vaio Z-series machines have an Insyde H2O UEFI firmware with 
BIOS compatibility. The boot time is not noticably faster. I /believe/ 
that the Aspire One is based on the same platform, so is technically an 
EFI machine - however, there doesn't appear to be any means of actually 
booting through it (rather than the compatibility layer) so the 
difference is pretty academic.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org