The following articles on reducing linux boot times have recently been published:
http://blog.crozat.net/2008/09/improving-boot-time-on-general-linux.html http://www.bootchart.org/ http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/ http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/09/how-powertop-latencytop-and-fi.html There might be some useful ideas / tools mentioned. On Oct 3, 2008, at 8:06 AM, Martin Dengler wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 03:24:25PM +0200, NoiseEHC wrote: >> If you somehow missed it, there is possible to boot Linux in 5 >> seconds >> on an EeePC. >> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s7NxCM8ryF8 >> >> Here is the paper: >> http://www.fenrus.org/plumbers_fastboot.ppt >> >> Could somebody explain me whether these results are applicable to the >> XO, and how far are we from it, please? > > I got TuxOnIce[1] patched[2] and as far as testing the hibernate > step[3] before I gave up after TuxOnIce refused to save the image (it > just rebooted[4] instead). > > It's a bit too much of a time sink for me to hope to get much more > done on, though. Hopefully someone else can pursue it or > alternatives. > > Martin > > 1. http://www.tuxonice.net/HOWTO-7.html#ss7.5 > 2. http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/mdengler/ > olpc-2.6;a=shortlog;h=testing > 3. Step #6 in > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-August/018700.html > 4. > [unload/unmount stuff] > echo 1 > /sys/power/tuxonice/keep_image > echo 1 > /sys/power/tuxonice/freezer_test > echo 1 > /sys/power/tuxonice/suspend > [should just create memory image, but just rebooted right away] > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> Devel@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
