hegjon expanded the still-open omacom/omarchy-iso#355 with nine additional commits, described in omacom/omarchy-iso#355:issuecomment-6504343044. They defer medium hashing until the first installer screen, reduce startup reads, shorten the BIOS countdown and enable a splash on the firmware framebuffer. hegjon reports the ISO and installer's USB 2.0 time falling from 11.0 to 7.9 seconds for this additional work.
These new changes had QEMU integration coverage but no real-stick test in the supplied update. As explicitly dated background, hegjon's October 28 test of the first three commits reported a ThinkPad X200 improving from 25.5 to 20.5 seconds from kernel start to greeter, followed by a successful installation. That result does not validate the nine newer commits, including removal of the USB device-settle delay.
