Bits from the Debian Eee PC team

Everything that it needs is built in to the kernel. I have the impression that during coldplug it still calls modprobe, but that that's a no-op as no module is loaded. I'm not sure how much time is spent doing that and whether it's worth trying to fix it; it's clearly spending more time bringing up the network, which could be postponed until later in the boot and run asynchronously.

If anyone's curious, I have put bootgraph/chart here which you can compare with Arjan's from his LPC presentation:

http://chezphil.org/tmp/bootgraph1.svg
http://chezphil.org/tmp/bootchart1.svgz (hmm, maybe the wrong MIME type, sorry)