From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 12 09:00:19 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B73091065672; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:00:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [204.109.60.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74DDD8FC08; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:00:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from unknown (87-194-158-129.bethere.co.uk [87.194.158.129]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1C9E85C03; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:00:31 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:00:06 +0100 From: Bruce Cran To: Matt Thyer Message-ID: <20100612100006.000073fa@unknown> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4cvs1 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Chargen , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Farrag , Mohammed, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I need reply in Embedded FreeBSD Kernel Theme X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:00:19 -0000 On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:19:22 +0930 Matt Thyer wrote: > However my Soekris net4801 board still takes about 2.5 minutes to boot > and I think time could be saved by parallel probing of hardware where > possible. > > Much work has been done on fast boot times in the Linux world > including an impressive demonstration by an Intel team for car > instrumentation panels (on Youtube... Google for fastest Linux boot). It's on the list of ideas for 9.0: see http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD9#head-960c3f5a8747af95199367a8c84030dfe2b99f1b -- Bruce Cran