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Wrong "stack"

Posted Jul 14, 2009 21:29 UTC (Tue) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510)
In reply to: Wrong "stack" by jeff@uclinux.org
Parent article: MontaVista Achieves Ultra-Fast One Second Linux Boot Time in Embedded Industrial Applications

Busybox got to the prompt really quickly back when I wrote it in '96. Most of the time spent in booting back then was waiting for the kernel to not detect devices.


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Wrong "stack"

Posted Jul 14, 2009 21:37 UTC (Tue) by arjan (subscriber, #36785) [Link]

the kernel has been fixed since; typical is around 0.6 seconds for a kernel boot with all drivers in there....

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