Subject: Re: faster boots?
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 13:45:34 +0100 (BST)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), bcrl@redhat.com (Benjamin LaHaise),
        akpm@zip.com.au (Andrew Morton),
        rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca (Richard Gooch), joeja@mindspring.com,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <m1sn6apt8r.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> from "Eric W. Biederman" at Apr 04, 2002 11:14:12 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> My impression is that the time during kernel initialization is either
> spent spinning up disks or in a million device probes and things going
> on behind the scenes.  I haven't had a chance to look farther though.

IDE is less of a problem normally. In the LinuxBIOS case it may become
measurable, and the initial drive spinup has to occur before the firmware
responds. (If I understand it rightly most of the drive firmware is on
the disk). For the spin up/down the IDE folks put it in the drives which 
makes life much simpler

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