Hi there, I'm Magnus Deininger, aka jyujin, head of the eINIT project, a~nd I'd like help the maemo project by improving bootup times. One of my friends is telling me that maemo devices are booting 'unbearably slow' and that this would be quite the complaint with customers; he's going so far as to offer his Nokia 770 for the cause if i can make it boot faster.
My pet project (eINIT, http://einit.org) is currently doing reasonably well at making computers boot faster, but we haven't tried to make it work on too many embedded devices just yet, mostly because we're a bit tight on devs and time... and people that would be interested in seeing it on their embedded device. We're still doing quite the progress in boot times tho, as could be seen by this little video (taken by that friend of mine who'd like to see his nokia 770 boot faster): http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-2744120711983143659 . That's booting fairly fast, especially considering it boots right into compiz... I also made this bootchart: http://omploader.org/vZHdj -- which is on my main desktop, without any real optimisations. Both boxes (the one in the video, and mine) used to boot in about 1 to 1:20 minutes before, so that's /quite/ an improvement right there. Now seeing as my friend has some issues with his device, I'd like to help him, and the maemo project, but since I'm a bit tight on time, I'd first like to know if anyone else is actually interested in me porting eINIT to maemo, since I'd hate setting up a devel environment for a single device ;). Which brings me to why I'm posting on this ML in the first place: I'd like to know if people /are/ interested in this or not. Just get right back at me if there's any interest. I'll monitor this ML for the time being, and I'd also like to invite any interested developers to join our IRC channel, #einit on freenode. So, that concludes my offer I think. Greets, and happy hacking, Magnus Deininger http://einit.org/ IRC: jyujin on freenode; #einit PS.: Oh, not to forget, eINIT is BSD-licenced, so there shouldn't be any weird licencing issues from a business POV either, if that would ever be an issue. _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
