Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261719AbVBON3z (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:29:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261720AbVBON3z (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:29:55 -0500 Received: from [195.23.16.24] ([195.23.16.24]:32951 "EHLO bipbip.comserver-pie.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261719AbVBON3x (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:29:53 -0500 Message-ID: <4211F90F.5030705@grupopie.com> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:28:47 +0000 From: Paulo Marques Organization: Grupo PIE User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Helge Hafting Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch , Kyle Moffett , Lee Revell , Patrick McFarland , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tim Bird , Prakash Punnoor , Paolo Ciarrocchi , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Greg KH , Roland Dreier Subject: Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release) References: <20050211004033.GA26624@suse.de> <420C054B.1070502@downeast.net> <20050211011609.GA27176@suse.de> <1108354011.25912.43.camel@krustophenia.net> <4d8e3fd305021400323fa01fff@mail.gmail.com> <42106685.40307@arcor.de> <1108422240.28902.11.camel@krustophenia.net> <524qge20e2.fsf@topspin.com> <1108424720.32293.8.camel@krustophenia.net> <42113F6B.1080602@am.sony.com> <1108430245.32293.16.camel@krustophenia.net> <4B923A81-7EF3-11D9-86CC-000393ACC76E@mac.com> <4211B8FC.8000600@aitel.hist.no> <1108459982.438.9.camel@tara.firmix.at> <4211F706.4030104@aitel.hist.no> In-Reply-To: <4211F706.4030104@aitel.hist.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1028 Lines: 26 Helge Hafting wrote: > Now that is a really good idea. Init could simply run "make -j init2" to > enter runlevel 2. A suitable makefile would list all dependencies, and > of course the targets needed for "init2", "init3" and so on. > > It might not be that much work either. Parallel make exists already, > and the > first attempt at a makefile could simply implement the current sequence > that > is known to work. Then the tweaking comes. :-) Someone already mentioned this work before on this thread. I just googled for it and found the link: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot.html?ca=dgr-lnxw04BootFaster -- Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/