On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 05:15, Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:11 PM, <p...@laptop.org> wrote: >> now that it's been pointed out that most of the cat processes >> were from bootchart itself, i highly doubt there will be > > Heisenbug :-) even then, it does give you fairly good idea of what's > up during boot. > > SoaS is meant to run on any hw out there, and a lot of the > optimisations on the XO are because we _know_ what hw we have. Does it > make sense to get "skip all this hw poking if it looks like an XO" > patch upstream? > > In fact, this might be something that upstream wants to think about in > a generic sense. All the boot-in-5s focus lately is a lot of fun (and > great for end-users, I surely want _my_ boxes to boot in 5s), but > depends in part on skipping a lot of poking and waiting for hardware. > > Anyone building a custom Fedora for a netbook will want the same thing > we want: a way to declare a "fast path" for known hw. Specially on the > netbook segment this can have a huge payoff. (Wonder if Ubuntu doing > something like this?)
Mandriva has done this for the derivatives of their distro that netbook makers ship. Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel