Well, true that but it sure can be an annoyance if your battery runs out and the first thing you notice is that the device is having you wait a couple of minutes. And the way I see it, if your device boots fast enough, you could just as well shut it down completely instead of putting it into stand-by mode, thus essentially giving you unlimited stand-by time.
On the bright side, if if bootup times aren't too much of a concern for most users, einit also provides for a centralised hardware event handler and allows the actions to this to have very little overhead by being able to write handlers in C or anything else that compiles to an ELF object file. It also has service supervision and provides for backup plans if something won't start, which tend to come in handy a lot on embedded devices. -- Magnus Quoting Frank Banul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > No offence but I would guess most people don't boot their devices > very often. It would be nice to have faster boot times but I rarely > boot my device. Just an opinion. I hope it's helpful. > > Frank > > ----- Original message ----- > Hi there, > > I'm Magnus Deininger, aka jyujin, head of the eINIT project, a~nd I'd > like help the maemo project by improving bootup times. One of my > friends is telling me that maemo devices are booting 'unbearably slow' > and that this would be quite the complaint with customers; he's going > so far as to offer his Nokia 770 for the cause if i can make it boot > faster. > > My pet project (eINIT, http://einit.org) is currently doing reasonably > well at making computers boot faster, but we haven't tried to make it > work on too many embedded devices just yet, mostly because we're a bit > tight on devs and time... and people that would be interested in > seeing it on their embedded device. We're still doing quite the > progress in boot times tho, as could be seen by this little video > (taken by that friend of mine who'd like to see his nokia 770 boot > faster): > http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-2744120711983143659 . > That's booting fairly fast, especially considering it boots right into > compiz... I also made this bootchart: http://omploader.org/vZHdj -- > which is on my main desktop, without any real optimisations. Both > boxes (the one in the video, and mine) used to boot in about 1 to 1:20 > minutes before, so that's /quite/ an improvement right there. > > Now seeing as my friend has some issues with his device, I'd like to > help him, and the maemo project, but since I'm a bit tight on time, > I'd first like to know if anyone else is actually interested in me > porting eINIT to maemo, since I'd hate setting up a devel environment > for a single device ;). Which brings me to why I'm posting on this ML > in the first place: I'd like to know if people /are/ interested in > this or not. Just get right back at me if there's any interest. I'll > monitor this ML for the time being, and I'd also like to invite any > interested developers to join our IRC channel, #einit on freenode. > > So, that concludes my offer I think. > > Greets, and happy hacking, > Magnus Deininger > http://einit.org/ > IRC: jyujin on freenode; #einit > > PS.: Oh, not to forget, eINIT is BSD-licenced, so there shouldn't be > any weird licencing issues from a business POV either, if that would > ever be an issue. > > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > > > _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
