On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 2:52 AM, Ankur Tank <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Experts,
>
> We have BBB based custom Linux board running Linux 3.12
>
> We are using SysV init, for boot, And I understand that boot happens in
> following sequence,
>
> 1. ROM code lookks for boot device based on boot pin configuration.
> 2. ROM code loads first stage boot loader(SPL/X-loader) to Internal SRAM
> and gives control to it.
> 3. SPL does some initialization like DDR and proceeds to load U-Boot to RAM
> 4. U-Boot does other peripheral initialization i.e. NAND/eMMC/ethernet and
> loads kernel+dtb
> 5. Kernel executes initializes configures different hardware/peripherals
> based on dtb and initializes all the drivers.
> 6. Kernel runs first process i.e. init (/sbin/init in our case but can be
> set in Kernel command line parameters).
> 7. init application based on inittab(configuration file) runs startup
> script specified in inittab file e.g. ::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS
> 8. This /etc/init.d/rcS runs all the init scripts placed in "/etc/init.d/"
>  folder.
>
> So this is how board boots with SysV init, (or atleast this is my
> understanding), Correct If I am wrong in some points,
> Now some point we want to evaluate how "*systemd*" init happens, we will
> have to make POC and see any improvement or degradation of the system boot
> and process maintenance.
>
> We know some basics that systemd works on cgroups and can start processes
> in parallel but handles process like what *monit* does.
> However what we don't know is "*Boot process with systemd*' can someone
> explain *boot process with systemd for BeagleboneBlack or in general?*
> Or can you point me to any document/website/blog which explains this ?
>

Start reading:

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/

There isn't anything "BeagleBone Black" specific...  We use systemd like
everyone else..

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/

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