Stefan Bambach wrote:

>
>o> Practacally yes, but for things like DOM the spin up time ~= 0.
>
>Do you mean DoC ? But real IDE drives (hard disk) need more
>time to spin up, than the boot process from linuxbios will
>need. I will try some more configs this weekend, because my
>boot up time without init process is about 12 seconds (no
>ide patch applied, ide device drivers in kernel (no
>modules), linuxbios and kernel serial console activated,
>unneeded modules deactivated). This 12 seconds is too long.
>5 seconds with loaded drivers, init process would be enough.
>
No, I mean DOM.

>
>I measured the needed times in seconds:
>- power on             0s (starting point)
>- linuxbios            4s (until kernel loaded)
>- kernel               8s (until first message from init
>                           process)
>- init process         2s (can be optimized to < 1s)
>- login prompt
>
I have committed the K7 MSR stuff such that can boost performance a lot. 
You should cvs update
your source tree and try again. I assume you are using 810lmr.

Ollie


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