boot/init revisited

Posted Feb 18, 2009 0:14 UTC (Wed) by davej (subscriber, #354)
Parent article: 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference Call For Topics

I'll bet by the time plumbers comes around, every distro will still not come anywhere near the famous 5 second boot-up. Though everyone will surely be doing better than they were a year ago.

What stumbling blocks will remain? how can we work better together to make these changes happen?

Last years event saw a lot of cross-distro collaboration during the mini-hackfest that followed the boot/init miniconf. I'm sure there are more wins to share here.

boot/init revisited

Posted Feb 18, 2009 22:35 UTC (Wed) by PaulMcKenney (✭ supporter ✭, #9624) [Link]

I bet you are correct, and besides, greedy people like myself would ask "5 seconds is nice, but why not faster?". At least I am no longer a teenager, so I won't be asking for anything faster than a few hundred milliseconds. ;-)

Arjan van de Ven, Aoke Kok, and Keith Packard appear in the LWN article reporting on last year's session. Any thoughts on who else would help push this forward?