# diskboot 10000 0:2
Loading from ide device 0, partition 2:
Name: kernel
Type: Apple_UNIX_SVR2, uImage
..... done
# diskboot 3000000 0:3
Loading from ide device 0, partition 3:
Name: rootfs
Type: Apple_UNIX_SVR2, raw
..... done
So, I have added a couple of features to u-boot to have the possibility to support microdrive in true_IDE mode and to load in ram the content of any partition.
A lot of work, not it works, but ... performance is not so good.
~8MB, load_time_via_tftpboot=
12sec, load_time_via_diskboot=
7sec~70MB, load_time_via_tftpboot=
104sec, load_time_via_diskboot=
65sectftpboot is an option, there was a bug preventing the Ethernet to auto-negotiate the 100Mbps speed, now the problem is solved, but again ... performance is not so good.
So I wonder about the most likely performance fault location on a u-boot on PPC405GP

anyone has ever worked on it?