>>> I am aware of two fixes for U-Boot. I will look them up, and reply again to >>> this thread.
Browsing through u-boot commits, I found this gem that's disabled by default: CONFIG_BLOCK_CACHE=y The commit is this one: commit e40cf34a29f1b248643731a11fb1c6f0520d016c Author: Eric Nelson <e...@nelint.com> Date: Mon Mar 28 10:05:44 2016 -0700 drivers: block: add block device cache Add a block device cache to speed up repeated reads of block devices by various filesystems. This small amount of cache can dramatically speed up filesystem operations by skipping repeated reads of common areas of a block device (typically directory structures). This has shown to have some benefit on FAT filesystem operations of loading a kernel and RAM disk, but more dramatic benefits on ext4 filesystems when the kernel and/or RAM disk are spread across multiple extent header structures as described in commit fc0fc50. ... I'll be giving that a test drive soon... -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core