In a Yocto Project build for Intel Galileo, the IH Config Tool is called from recipes:
Example from a Galileo recipe (u-boot-fw-utils.bb): ih config tool
do_compile_append()
ih-config-tool -a create -t kernel -c none \
-l 0x1000000 -e 0x1000000 \
-o $DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE/uImage $S/arch/x86/boot/bzImage
A customer using the IH Config Tool reduced their platform boot time from 3.2 seconds to 1.8 seconds by: In a Yocto Project build for Intel Galileo,
This was impossible with the standard BIOS menu. Example from a Galileo recipe ( u-boot-fw-utils
Click "Download" or "Write to Device."