I don’t know why it is slower, but it is. I imagine, it’s because the EFI system does some probing with the kernel, that regular installs, using dtbs, don’t have to.
Indeed, that should not be done on each boot. Will fix in a package update. Thanks.
That is a concern. Tow-boot uses older versions of u-boot (and uboot itself does not sync the DTSs that often) and is also “opinionated” in it’s distribution, meaning that it does change some things the developer finds is not optimal in u-boot.
What version of tow-boot do you use BTW ? The more recent I found is 2021-10-005, but it was actually released on Agust 2022.
Also I understand that the EFI Manjaro images don’t install tow-boot by themselves, and it’s the user’s job to do it before installing Manjaro, am I mistaken ?
@Strit : What do you feel about the performance impact in UEFI mode ? I’m under the impression - but thats’ just my impression, I didn’t perform benchmarks - that my Pinebook Pro running UEFI has taken such a performance hit that I’m considering reverting back to legacy “syslinux” mode right away.
Even though it actually “works”…
That’s already not a very speedy machine, I can’t afford to lose 30% of performance or more just because of a boot method choice…
(Assuming that the Manjaro ARM team plans to keep maintaining both legacy and UEFI versions…)
The machine it self is not meant to be performant, so I don’t use it for anything that requires performance. I mostly use it for testing updates. Some of the performance issue could just be that the DTB is old compared to what’s in newer kernels.
We will be maintaining both until it’s not viable anymore.
Thansk for the reply @Strit. I actually love my Pinebook Pro little machine, sleek, light, fanless, and for now I use it as my daily general purpose station - web, email and so…
Not for stuff that would actually need performance, virtualization or whatnot of course.
But for the rest I find the overall performance to be “acceptable”.
But I love the idea of using something else than an Intel architecture computer.
That’s why well, I can’t afford to having it slowing down to a crawl.