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boot speed matters

Posted Sep 7, 2009 22:11 UTC (Mon) by ignacio.hernandez (subscriber, #56157)
In reply to: boot speed matters by drag
Parent article: Debian switching to upstart

Not sure about what car radios are you talking about but working on them for a while has showed me that almost all radios shipping in an automobile from the factory use a form of non volatile memory for storing you preferred stations.

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boot speed matters

Posted Sep 8, 2009 8:24 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

All I can say is that you obviously have not been working on car stereos long enough.

boot speed matters

Posted Sep 8, 2009 20:26 UTC (Tue) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link]

It's probably a function of nvram economics and manufacturer philosophy at different times -- my 15-year-old oem radio from Volvo does preserve presets over battery disconnection.

Not that this is terribly relevant to anything.

boot speed matters

Posted Sep 8, 2009 16:22 UTC (Tue) by HenrikH (guest, #31152) [Link]

Not on any of the cars that I have ever own, including a 2001 Toyota Avensis had any form av non-volatile memory in the radio. Whenever there was service performed on the car(s) the stations went.