simple task to speed up booting

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 10:32:40 +0000
The rotating swirlie ('-/|\') in the loader accounts for a surprisingly
large part of our boot time on systems with slow-ish serial consoles.

I think right now it takes a step for each 512 byte read, reducing that
to once every 64kB or even 1MB would be an improvement with the kind of
kernel sizes we have today.

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Received on Sun Dec 14 2014 - 09:40:17 UTC

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