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		userbinator on July 20, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introduction to Coreboot, an open source BIOS The fastest entry into pmode I've seen is InsydeH2O BIOS which does it in <10 instructions.

e12e on July 24, 2014 [–]

I'd be more interested in how many cycles it takes. I mean at 2 billion instructions per second, do you really notice a difference between 30 and 10 instructions? However, if any/all/many of the stall on data or something, then yes, it matters.

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