Hi,

I'm trying to get my boot time down under 2 seconds. I have followed the steps listed at http://wiki.davincidsp.com/index.php?title=All_This_For_1_Second_Boot and this has gotten me to about 3-4 seconds.

My question is that I am seeing a pause between the last output of u-boot and the first output of the kernel which seems strange to me. This pause is on the order of 1.5 seconds, which if I could eliminate would put me right where I want to be.

The output is shown below. The pause I am talking about happens between "
Starting kernel ..." and "Linux version 2.6.10_mv...."

I am using an uncompressed kernel with virtually no options enabled, just to try and find the baseline fastest boot speed I can. Can anyone help me?


## Booting image at 80007fc0 ...
   Image Name:   LCIS-Linux
   Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size:    1132352 Bytes =  1.1 MB
   Load Address: 80008000
   Entry Point:  80008000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
OK
## Loading Ramdisk Image at 80900000 ...
   Image Name:   Ramdisk
   Image Type:   ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size:    700416 Bytes = 684 kB
   Load Address: 80900000
   Entry Point:  80900000

Starting kernel ...

Linux version 2.6.10_mvl401-davinci_evm-PSP_01_30_00_082 (sress...@bonneville) (gcc version 3.4.3 (MontaVista 3.4.3-25.0.104.0600975 20069
CPU: ARM926EJ-Sid(wb) [41069265] revision 5 (ARMv5TEJ)
CPU0: D VIVT write-back cache
CPU0: I cache: 16384 bytes, associativity 4, 32 byte lines, 128 sets
CPU0: D cache: 8192 bytes, associativity 4, 32 byte lines, 64 sets
Machine: DaVinci EVM
Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
DM6443
MUX: initialized CLK_OUT0
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: mem=15M console=ttyS0,115200n8 root=/dev/ram0 ro ip=off lpj=741376 init=/bin/sh
...
...


Thanks for any help,
-Steve Ressler
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