Re: experimental fastboot images

2008-11-04 Thread Chia-I Wu
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 05:36:29PM +0800, Chia-I Wu wrote: > making rcS machine specific and starts X early, it is possible to make X > display something within 9 seconds. Thus, when I give upstart (or the ...and keeping certain degrees of compatibility with existing scripts. For example, ifup is

Re: experimental fastboot images

2008-11-04 Thread Chia-I Wu
On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 04:55:34PM +0100, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > I had a similar experience when I (accidantly) exchanged task-base w/ > task-boot. With regards to timing, sysvinit is not the problem here, it boots > quite nice when you remove all the services that are not necessary for

Re: experimental fastboot images

2008-11-03 Thread Alexey Shvetsov
On Monday 03 November 2008 17:14:37 Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: > Alexey Shvetsov ha scritto: > > Another way to speedup booting is migration to openrc init system > > It is default init system for gentoo and it can boot handhelds like a > > hx4700 or in this case freerunner in very short time

Re: experimental fastboot images

2008-11-03 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Alexey Shvetsov ha scritto: > Another way to speedup booting is migration to openrc init system > It is default init system for gentoo and it can boot handhelds like a hx4700 > or in this case freerunner in very short time (20-30s) Another init system suggested months ago was eINIT now called kyu

Re: experimental fastboot images

2008-11-03 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Joel Newkirk wrote: > Indeed there are several things starting during boot that we can probably > defer to on-demand. Anything dealing with wifi or GPS for example, is just > a waste of load time and scarce memory until/unless actually activated by > the user, IMHO. I do agree about this. Gpsd (I

Re: experimental fastboot images

2008-11-01 Thread Alexey Shvetsov
Another way to speedup booting is migration to openrc init system It is default init system for gentoo and it can boot handhelds like a hx4700 or in this case freerunner in very short time (20-30s) -- Alexey 'Alexxy' Shvetsov Gentoo Team Ru signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: experimental fastboot images

2008-11-01 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 16:55:34 +0100, "Michael 'Mickey' Lauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amazing work, Olv! > > I had a similar experience when I (accidantly) exchanged task-base w/ > task-boot. With regards to timing, sysvinit is not the problem here, it > boots > quite nice when you remove all t

Re: experimental fastboot images

2008-11-01 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Amazing work, Olv! I had a similar experience when I (accidantly) exchanged task-base w/ task-boot. With regards to timing, sysvinit is not the problem here, it boots quite nice when you remove all the services that are not necessary for booting into the UI. The problem though is that we're s

Re: experimental fastboot images

2008-11-01 Thread Chia-I Wu
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 07:08:47PM +0100, Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger wrote: > I noticed patch 0004-fastboot-udev-static-only.patch. Is there a > specific reason to used udev-118 instead of udev-124? I have used > udev-124 and didn't notice any issues so far. 124 uses the same method > (untar'ring /dev)

Re: experimental fastboot images

2008-11-01 Thread Chia-I Wu
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 09:21:16PM +0100, Pander wrote: > >> The kernel image and rootfs image are available at > >> http://people.openmoko.org/olv/tmp/fastboot/ > Works good with latest stable OM en FDOM :) Thanks for the testing :) It is reported that there is no network on first boot, and it is

Re: experimental fastboot images

2008-10-31 Thread Pander
Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger wrote: > Hi, > > Chia-I Wu wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I was playing with initscripts for the last two weeks. By removing >> non-critical scripts/services and modifying the remaining ones, I was >> able to boot into illume within ~50s since power up. > > That's good news. It's

Re: experimental fastboot images

2008-10-31 Thread Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger
Hi, Chia-I Wu wrote: > Hi all, > > I was playing with initscripts for the last two weeks. By removing > non-critical scripts/services and modifying the remaining ones, I was > able to boot into illume within ~50s since power up. That's good news. It's about the same I got with my own tweaks on

experimental fastboot images

2008-10-31 Thread Chia-I Wu
Hi all, I was playing with initscripts for the last two weeks. By removing non-critical scripts/services and modifying the remaining ones, I was able to boot into illume within ~50s since power up. The kernel image and rootfs image are available at http://people.openmoko.org/olv/tmp/fastboot/