[LinuxBIOS] filo ide speedup patch!

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Peter Stuge <stuge-linuxbios at cdy.org> [070407 05:34]:
> This is GRUB code reading menu.lst one byte at a time because it is
> looking for a newline.
> 
> There's a simple but good enough sector cache in read_sector() that
> gets used here so this is not a problem.
 
Can we enhance this and use it for loading the kernel too ("readahead")
so we don't have to patch all filesystems?


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