Hello Kay,
> Libpci and its linear search through megabytes of text files for evey
> new query is too inefficient, that we cannot afford to use it during
> early bootup. It was the largest hit left in bootup profiling on
> machines booting userspace in the sub-1-second range on common
> machines. It was probably never meant to provide efficient queries,
> but it's the reason we can never use it during early boot.
I do not know what you are speaking about -- libpci definitely does
not perform linear scans on pci.ids. It builds a hash table from pci.ids
on the first query and and all subsequent queries are O(1) on average.
Martin
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