Miloslav Trmač (mitr@xxxxxxxx) said: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > even loading a 20mb initramfs from a sdcard on a slow > > arm box doesnt take that long, and id personally much rather be able to > > change hardware or yank the drive and put it into a different box > > without worrying about making sure i have the right initramfs bits in > > place. at least to me the costs outweigh the benefits. the grub timeout > > on my laptop/desktops is longer than the time it takes to load the > > initramfs. > > This actually suggests a different way to achieve the same result: > Teach grub to preload the kernel and initrd while waiting for the > timeout. That gives us _even better_ speedup, and doesn't sacrifice > the generic usability of the initrd. Well, if the plan is to not timeout, that won't help. But it could be interesting. Although, everything I've heard about the grub code makes me entirely concerned when something that amounts to 'introduce threads' is suggested. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
