Any comments on these questions? Where should I post in to get information 
on boot configuration and boot time?

Regards,
JS


On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 11:40:50 AM UTC-5, Jean-Sebastien Stoezel 
wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> I am running a Beagle Bone with a custom cape and I am looking for ways to 
> reduce its boot time. The cape will always be the same and so I'd like to 
> see what it is I can change to reduce or completely remove custom auto 
> detection scripts.
> As of now, the board boots in 18s, 8s are spent in the kernel, 10s are 
> spent in user space.
>
> I have seen numbers out stating that the kernel can boot in less than 2s. 
> I'd be interested to know how this is possible. I am aware of a timeout 
> being used in the kernel, though I am not sure how to disable this (using 
> 4.1.33-bone-rt-r24).
>
> Currently generic-board-startup.service seems to be the service that takes 
> the longest to complete. Looking at what it does, it seems to be invoking 
> am335x_evm.h.sh. I am wondering if I could disable anything related to 
> detecting capes (including trying to read the eeprom). At this time I can 
> see lines 30 to 55 in the scripts being related to eeprom flashing/reading, 
> though I am not sure this is targetting the cape's eeprom.
>
> In general, how would I go about disabling auto detection of capes? Would 
> I need to edit these scripts? Or is there a cleaner way to disable features 
> by editing a config file?
>
> Regards,
> JS
>
>

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