Hi Juergen, > > Running prelink with rc.once.d causes a first boot stall of about 2 > > minutes on Freescale i.MX28 454MHz ARM9 processor. > > This can be expensive if first device boot is during product > > manufacturing (assembly, programming, configuration, test). > > With Using a recent linker the prelink becomes redundant. It is already done > when the linker hash-style it set to "gnu" (which is the default in a recent > PTXdist). > Or did you still see improvements with or without the pre-link step and > that's why you are still using this feature?
The feature was enabled by mistake during a ptxdist upgrade from 2012.04 (TQ BSP 0101) to 2013.12 (TQ BSP 0109). Normally I cherry-pick rule upgrades rather than doing full ptxdist upgrade, since it's easier to maintain auto build servers, if they only need to do a source checkout. We don't see any noticeable app start improvements. But disabling prelink result in a significant lower product production time. /Bruno -- ptxdist mailing list [email protected]
