From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
To: Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-discuss@handhelds.org
Subject: Re: parallel boot device initialisation (kernel-space not userspace)
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 17:42:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061208174221.GE4666@lkcl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612081737510.1665@twin.jikos.cz>
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 05:38:47PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>
> > I Have A Great Idea(tm) and would like to describe it concisely to see
> > if anyone likes it and hopefully hasn't thought of it before so i'm not
> > consuming people's time. The idea is: parallel device initialisation of
> > built-in modules, to reduce kernel boot time.
>
> Have you looked at CONFIG_PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE which is already present
> in recent kernels?
ah _ha_. thank you!
honestly? no - because the small devices i'm compiling for don't have a
pci bus, ha ha :)
but seriously - thank you for pointing that out, i'll definitely
investigate it.
l.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-08 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-08 16:34 parallel boot device initialisation (kernel-space not userspace) Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2006-12-08 16:38 ` Jiri Kosina
2006-12-08 17:42 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [this message]
2006-12-08 22:44 ` Stefan Richter
2006-12-10 21:35 ` [Kernel-discuss] " Ian Molton
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