On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:59, Alexander Stein wrote: > 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.
eh ? those are still used with serial consoles. unless you're talking about some driver that is specific to the OMAP3 and/or a board. -mike _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
