On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 01:37:29 +0100, Diego Calleja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>El Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:07:53 -0500, >Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > >> I'm really not trolling, but I suspect if we made the boot process less >> verbose, people would start to wonder more about why Linux takes so much >> longer than XP to boot. > >By the way, Microsoft seems to be claiming that boot time will be reduced to >the half >with Longhorn. While we already know how ms marketing team works, 50% looks >like a lot. Is there a good place to discuss what could be done in the >linuxland to >improve things? It doesn't looks like a couple of optimizations will be >enought... Considering msft don't do full options hardware detection until after GUI shell is up, next speed up could simply be start from hibernate? They already do a hardware signature, and if hardware changed you may need a new license anyway :-) Pay per cold boot? Noisy startup? 2.6 has good solution in default kernel build, display milestones during startup or super quiet loader option passed from boot? "dmesg -qq" thru "dmesg -vv" stir anyone? Grant. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
