Hi, I think you are not going to find much of an advantage trying another Linux distribution. The most important thing here is support for the target board *and* peripherals. I think you will find a distinct lack of support once you try something other than the TI/MV kernel.
You can make some speed ups though Kernel ====== 1/ Build the kernel to only have support for the hardware you need. 2/ Remove software options you can live without such as strange partition types & filesystems your board will never see. 3/ Turn off the console logging (once you are happy with the system of course). I have seen this done but I can't recall which kernel option does this. This makes a suprising difference to the start up as all that serial port output takes a lot of time to appear. Root Filesystem =============== 1/ Remove all unneeded programs/services from the start up. If you use DevRocket (or other filesystem generation tool) to do this you will produce a much smaller filesystem as a side effect. This may not be much of an advantage if you are using the hard disk but for a final FLASH based target it can result in significant space saving. Regards Phil Q Phil Quiney, Senior Software Engineer Trinity Convergence Cambridge Business Park Cowley Road Cambridge CB4 0WZ, UK T: +44(0)1223-435536 F: +44(0)1223-435560 www.trinityconvergence.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dr. Lijun Luo Sent: 30 April 2008 09:31 To: 'davinci-linux-open-source' Subject: Linux startup time for DM6446 Dear all, I need to configure/optimize a simple Linux kernel (either MontaVista or open-source GIT kernel) for DM6446 audio/video recorder on CF card. Has somebody done something quite similar to speedup bootup time? Which range we can get for the minimum? Is there better Linux we can use? MobLinux? PrKernel/PrOS? Regards, Lijun Luo _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list [email protected] http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list [email protected] http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list [email protected] http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source
