Boot Time Optimization

[Petr Vanek]

>> I would 
>> like to try to statically link the qi-bootmenu app to see if that
>> makes a difference size/performance wise.
>
>In the meantime I patched tslib so that it's filter plugins are
>embedded into it's main library.
>
> https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/tslib-general/2010-January/000253.html
>
>Configured eina and evas to do the same and statically linked
>qi-bootmenu. The resulting binary is about ~1.1M I should try to link
>it against libc.so because that's the only library that is used by
>multiple apps (busybox / kexec / dropbear).
>
>It now takes about 7.3 seconds from power on to the menu. This is with
>kernel boot messages enabled (disabling them should give some speed

wow, this sounds very good!!

Petr