On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 05:24:05PM -0300, Werner Almesberger wrote: > Marc Andre Tanner wrote: > > Any hints to further speed it up? > > Some ideas not for speeding it up as a whole but for making it > spend its time when it's less noticeable: > > If booting from SD, you could put things you don't need in the > initramfs into a regular file system partition or image that gets > mounted later. That way, you can interact a little bit earlier. > Drawback: more complex to set up than just a single file.
I fear it would be too complex to set up which means nobody will use it so I would like to avoid it for now. > Likewise, you could initialize drivers you don't need immediately > (e.g., storage) by loading them as a module, so they disappear > from your critical path to first interaction. Yeah I need to readup on deferred initcalls and friends. An obvious candidate for delayed loading would be everything network related. Thanks, Marc -- Marc Andre Tanner >< http://www.brain-dump.org/ >< GPG key: CF7D56C0
