On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 05:39:22PM +0000, Wookey wrote:
> On 2009-01-07 17:43 +0000, P.J.G. Long wrote:
> > On Jan 7 2009, Wookey wrote:
> > >Yesterday the very new Emdebian Grip distro booted on Balloon - the
> > >first boot on a non-x86 target.
> > >
> >  Sounds good, any improvement on booting speed?
> I just tested it and unsurprisingly (it runs almost exactly the same
> code) it took the same time to the second. 
> 
> As discussed there are lots of things to make the boot faster
> (although most of them reduce flexibility in some way). Someone just
> has to find some time to test them and decide which are generic enough
> for inclusion for all and which need to be reserved for a 'fast boot'
> image.

I'm not sure what's been discussed, but presumably some of the work
being done for fast booting of netbooks can apply as well? The async
init call stuff isn't in mainline yet, but looks like it will happen.
Have you got the Debian parallel boot bits (insserv) enabled? If you're
using an initramfs than statically compiling in all necessary drivers
and ditching it gives a boost.

http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/

for the LWN article on the 5s EEE boot.

J.