On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:57:15AM +0200, Boaz Ben-David wrote: > The kernel size is almost 5MB (it includes an initramfs). > > 8 seconds are from the time I call "bootm uImage" and until the init script in > the initramfs kicks in. > > If I can seriously shorten this time I will be glad to know, maybe there's > something I missed. Do you really need such a big image? Making things as small as possible in the first place and load everything that's possible at a later time is a good strategy for quickboot scenarios. The elinux reference is a good one for boot time reduction. Their wiki has a long list of possibilities. rsc -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
