Thanks to some hints I got on #oe I think I have a method of saving us 10s of boot time.
The method is quite simple, we pre-fill the /dev directory with the static devices built into the kernel that we know are there. We then dont run udevtrigger/udevsettle in the init script. The downside to this method is SD driver needs to be modular otherwise we lose hotplug detection of the card/partitions. This of course means root on SD cant be supported in this setup. Graeme
