Is there a way to make nightly builds of the entire distro, than automatically boot them on some server with qemu then time it?
I know this won't match what real hardware does, but it would be nice to have a graph of boot times and see if one build is remarkably worse (or better) than another. (if only I could do this stuff as my real job ;) ) On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:56:38PM +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > On Sunday 06 July 2008 05:30:42 Marek Lindner wrote: > > > you chart looks very good ! > > Sorry for delay on answering but I have to not agree with You Marek. > > The 2:53 boot time is disaster - none of my devices takes so much time > to just boot. I probably can go outside and find new phone before that one > will stop booting :( > > Take a look at recent Poky updates - we did lot of changes related to > minimize boot time. All of them gave us quite big speedup. > > From what I see the Openmoko boot process has few problems: > > - heavy bootsplash which block booting instead of going into background > - some things which needs to be done once are on each boot (ipkg, ldconfig, > probably also depmod) > - use of E17 based stuff with Qtopia based stuff at same time so two heavy > apps fight for CPU time > > Even if you make X11 not starting in background (like it is in Poky) you > can have device blocked for quite long time... We wait some time to give > X11 startup more CPU time and then start other daemons. With configuration > which Openmoko use under X it probably does not give anything special (but > it is worth trying). > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Somone asked me why I work on this free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/) software stuff and not get a real job. Charles Shultz had the best answer: "Why do musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems? They do it because life wouldn't have any meaning for them if they didn't. That's why I draw cartoons. It's my life." -- Charles Shultz