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LPC: Booting Linux in five secondsLPC: Booting Linux in five secondsPosted Sep 23, 2008 6:56 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)In reply to: LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds by alspnost Parent article: LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds Well, not all that "bloat" is bad. udev, for example, is a great invention; we probably don't want to create static /dev's for every laptop out there (I know I don't). And I don't really care if it's 5 or 15 seconds, so there is a lot of margin for adding such things back. But trimming the boot fat is still excellent news. Let's hope these improvements trickle down soon!
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LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds Posted Sep 23, 2008 8:31 UTC (Tue) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]
But if you are loading a kernel which has compiled-in support for a minimal hardware base, you can provide static /dev entries for just that hardware. udev was loaded later anyway if I read correctly. Actually, you could even have several such minimal kernels for different configurations and decide in advance which to load.
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