Specializing in the BIOS and firmware s Phoenix (the brand owner Award) was presented at the autumn conference, IDF 2009 model notebook, where the boot of Windows 7 now works in less than a second after pressing the switch computer. By contrast, competing with Phoenix company Insyde during one of the conference presentations Technical Track thoroughly discussed the optimization method allows to shorten the procedures for the firmware to less than two seconds, giving the number of traps lurking. Intel and for a long time on this issue has prepared a document White Paper (PDF), which describes in detail the various methods of optimization.
All three manufacturers instead of the traditional BIOS use UEFI 2.x firmware, this - according to company Insyde, Intel and Phoenix - can be extremely well optimized for short run times. In addition, modifications are needed, however, that most users may seem rather unusual. For example, a computer monitor no longer displays the status message, but at best, finished picture - and that's because the text output configuration service takes too long. Many automated features configuration the detection of newly assembled or connected equipment off newly optimized firmware versions: SPD-EEPROM memory modules are then read, main memory is not written with zeros first, the CPU is loaded permanently set to update microcode, and the drive Startup and system partition are set permanently. In the case of Apple's products have been known for years how to get to the menu choices, rather rare situations where necessary or desirable to amend the system configuration or order of the boot - the boot must then press the appropriate keys.
Insyde recommends, among other terms of the abandonment of a slower input devices, the USB hardware PS / 2 CPU clock speed during take-off of higher frequencies, the use of multi-threading and a translation written in C code using UEFI optimized compiler.
But, notes Insyde soon run the firmware does not meet the guidelines, which says the award program Microsoft's logo Windows 7 (Windows Logo Kit / GDL 1.4, unfortunately, has not officially). So far, Phoenix is not looked at this issue closely, but according to the manufacturer site Engadget demonstrated Lenovo ThinkPad T400 notebook with an optimized firmware and SSD, where the Windows 7 desktop appeared on the screen in less than ten seconds from a cold start.
Also, Vista x64 since SP1 can be installed in a clean mode UEFI. Linux on the other hand, if not the very cope with UEFI - which is true for systems using EFI Itanium years is included in the Penguin, but during the April of our experiments have failed to find a Linux distribution that could be run on "clean" system with UEFI 2.0. Many motherboards Intel and some other manufacturers using UEFI firmware in the meantime, emulate BIOS functions solely through the module CSM (Compatibility Support Module (PDF) - CSM-off-on (and thus enable the BIOS setup mode of firing UEFI) boot the operating system is forced to work with the UEFI. Setup Windows 7 x64 (or Vista SP1) configures the drive with an array of GPT (GUID Partition Table) and therefore resign from the classic MBR-on - depends on the main boot record and BIOS -u-like operating system legacy can not be installed at the same time when the same drive (not working too many programs for creating partition images). Despite all Phoenix expects that from 2010 many computers, especially notebooks will use the UEFI.
All three manufacturers instead of the traditional BIOS use UEFI 2.x firmware, this - according to company Insyde, Intel and Phoenix - can be extremely well optimized for short run times. In addition, modifications are needed, however, that most users may seem rather unusual. For example, a computer monitor no longer displays the status message, but at best, finished picture - and that's because the text output configuration service takes too long. Many automated features configuration the detection of newly assembled or connected equipment off newly optimized firmware versions: SPD-EEPROM memory modules are then read, main memory is not written with zeros first, the CPU is loaded permanently set to update microcode, and the drive Startup and system partition are set permanently. In the case of Apple's products have been known for years how to get to the menu choices, rather rare situations where necessary or desirable to amend the system configuration or order of the boot - the boot must then press the appropriate keys.
Insyde recommends, among other terms of the abandonment of a slower input devices, the USB hardware PS / 2 CPU clock speed during take-off of higher frequencies, the use of multi-threading and a translation written in C code using UEFI optimized compiler.
But, notes Insyde soon run the firmware does not meet the guidelines, which says the award program Microsoft's logo Windows 7 (Windows Logo Kit / GDL 1.4, unfortunately, has not officially). So far, Phoenix is not looked at this issue closely, but according to the manufacturer site Engadget demonstrated Lenovo ThinkPad T400 notebook with an optimized firmware and SSD, where the Windows 7 desktop appeared on the screen in less than ten seconds from a cold start.
Also, Vista x64 since SP1 can be installed in a clean mode UEFI. Linux on the other hand, if not the very cope with UEFI - which is true for systems using EFI Itanium years is included in the Penguin, but during the April of our experiments have failed to find a Linux distribution that could be run on "clean" system with UEFI 2.0. Many motherboards Intel and some other manufacturers using UEFI firmware in the meantime, emulate BIOS functions solely through the module CSM (Compatibility Support Module (PDF) - CSM-off-on (and thus enable the BIOS setup mode of firing UEFI) boot the operating system is forced to work with the UEFI. Setup Windows 7 x64 (or Vista SP1) configures the drive with an array of GPT (GUID Partition Table) and therefore resign from the classic MBR-on - depends on the main boot record and BIOS -u-like operating system legacy can not be installed at the same time when the same drive (not working too many programs for creating partition images). Despite all Phoenix expects that from 2010 many computers, especially notebooks will use the UEFI.
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