U-Boot got faster in the last cycle (v2010.12). Cache is now enabled on arm and multiblock reads were added to the mmc driver.
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 21 January 2011 18:42:55 David Rusling wrote: >> Yes, but isn't initrd slow to copy from the boot media >> (caches off, simple byte by byte copy)? > > I hadn't considered this, but I guess this also depends a > lot on the boot loader that is being used. Does uboot always > run with caches disabled, or is this board specific? > > If necessary, we can also find a way to create an image that > could be either an initramfs or a real root image, or we > could have a script that can convert whichever format we ship > to the other one. > > Arnd > > _______________________________________________ > linaro-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev > _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
