Hi Stan! On Wed, 2023-02-15 at 19:44 -0700, Stan Johnson wrote: > Going from 15 min to about 4 min seems worth the effort on old hardware. > As always, YMMV. Developers who use QEMU or other emulators likely don't > always realize how long it takes to boot real hardware.
I am not sure what makes you think we aren't aware of the long boot times, I just booted Debian unstable on my Amiga 4000/060 yesterday: root@elgar:~> systemd-analyze Startup finished in 1min 30.785s (kernel) + 5min 31.586s (userspace) = 7min 2.371s graphical.target reached after 5min 26.053s in userspace root@elgar:~> I understand your frustration, but please keep in mind that modern software is more complex and therefore runs slower on older hardware. We will certainly work on providing a leaner kernel in the future to help alleviate this issue. And rebootstrapping the whole distribution with 32-bit alignment (-malign-int) should improve code execution as well. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
