On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:06:32PM -0700, rick herbel wrote: > I have a question? The 3 sec boot time with linux bios is that 3 sec until > linux starts loading or is that 3 sec until > linux kernel is completly loaded? I have an embedded app and we were > wondering how long to expect from power on > until linux is actually controlling our app (by a kernel driver which > controls some hardware)? If you have any comments > on how lng this takes it would be appreciated (assuming minimal amount of > drivers needed to be loaded) > > Thanks for your time :)
I believe the three second timing is from power on to multi user mode login prompt. Your kernel driver would be activated quite some time before this happens, at least half a second earlier. //Peter
