[openmoko-devel] help with slow boot times, anyone? ;)

[Magnus Deininger]

Quoting Andy Powell <openmoko at automated.it>:

> On Wednesday 12 March 2008 10:14, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>> Dnia Wednesday 12 of March 2008, Magnus Deininger napisał:
>> > So back to the reason for me writing this mail: morphir reported that  
>> > openmoko phones can take a good 2 minutes to boot... which ain't so  
>> > great, and that might put people off, since a lot of people kinda  
>> > expect 'non-computer devices' to be instant-on.
>>
>> First boot can take 2 minutes because all packages configure themself.
>> Next boots are much faster.
>
> Mine just booted in 1m 49s, I'm not sure I'd consider that 'much' faster at
> all. Mickey did suggest or irc that it could be decreased by about 40s but
> it's still a long time.
>
> Andy
>
>

Well, there's bound to be more to be gained if it's booting in 1m 49s.  
Other embedded devices boot in under 20s... and at least 40s should be  
the target time.

I know that's not an issue when using suspend modes, but still it's  
something that oughta get tackled :).