On 11/03/16 17:03, Michael Howard wrote: > > > On 11/03/2016 16:45, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:31:20AM +0000, Michael Howard wrote: >>> 5 seconds only to be precise, at least on my board :) >> I found TFTP to be slower and more unreliable than that. However my >> TFTP server is dnsmasq running on an old box, > > That could be the reason then. Sdcards are painfully slow so you get > what you pay for metaphorically speaking. Most are painfully slow on random writes. Random and sequential reads and sequential writes are actually reasonably quick. Certainly in terms of loading TianoCore off the SD card, it shouldn't cause any obviously undue slowness. Gordan