Hi, Am Mittwoch, 27. April 2011, 15:39:18 schrieb Simon Schwarz: > I just started to work on my bachelor thesis. It is about "Linux boot-up > time optimization". The past days I spend analyzing what consumes the most > time in the boot process. > > I found that u-boot takes pretty much as long as the whole Linux kernel > (the one we are using). > > I started digging into the source and I think I have a big picture of what > is going on. I already learned from the mailing list that it is a good idea > to start a discussion early if you plan to change something and want it > upstream. At this point of my thesis I'am free to choose where I start - > only string attached is that if it is platform specific it has to be TI > OMAP3. > > So here is my question: Where do you see the most potential to optimize > u-boot?
Setting stdin, stdout and stderr takes a lot of time (IIRC ~500ms). Which IMO is useless on a bootloader without LCD support. Regards, Alexander _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
