Hello, I'm performing some research [for a CELF presentation] into reducing boot time on embedded systems and would like to see if the embedded community agree with the following statement as to why Linux [arguably] takes so long in the first place for an unoptimised system: "Linux is general purpose, convenient and flexible. As it's general purpose it's likely to contain un-required functionality which results in more initialisation and a larger image size. As it's convenient and flexible it will spent time discovering devices and verifying their existence." Do you largely agree or disagree? Also do you believe that boot time isn't the highest priority when it comes to improving the kernel? Thanks, Andrew Murray -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
