>Maybe this might be possible in some future of Openmoko Linux? Yes and no. Of course and not. :-)
Depends on what your definition of "cold boot" is. There are trade-offs here, as always. As I understand it, the read-only text of the kernel was in ROM (could have been Flash), so did not have to be read in off a file system and "loaded". On the other hand they were loading and initializing device drivers, and on a fixed system like the Openmoko you probably could cut down on that process quite a bit. Issues like memory bandwidth to the processor, processor speed, etc. etc. But the real question is, what was the customer need that drove the work? Probably a lot of engineering work went into that "one second boot", but what would a "one second boot" (versus a two second or three second boot) really gain the FreeRunner unless you had a "boot on incoming event", and a way to capture that event until the phone had booted and could handle it? IMHO what would be more useful is even more power management work to make the battery last longer in normal running mode, suspend and deep suspend, rather than shortening the (hopefully) once per year boot cycle. Warmest regards, md _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
