From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>
Cc: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>,
kernel@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: New fast(?)-boot results on ARM
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:46:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090814184651.GA12021@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A85AAC4.7050505@acm.org>
Zan Lynx wrote:
> Or maybe its cheap and slow flash. In that case I think your only hope
> is to make all the code as small as possible and/or find a different
> flash filesystem that does not have to read so much of the device to
> mount. Perhaps use a read-only compressed filesystem for the system
> binaries and reflash it for software upgrades. Only init and mount the
> writable flash for user-storable data well after system boot has finished.
Fwiw, logfs claims to mount quickly, but I haven't heard much about it
in recent months and http://logfs.org/logfs/ implies it's not really
stable yet. But maybe if you're working on a prototype that doesn't
matter so much.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-14 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-14 17:02 New fast(?)-boot results on ARM Robert Schwebel
2009-08-14 18:19 ` Zan Lynx
2009-08-14 18:46 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2009-08-14 18:58 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-08-14 18:57 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-08-14 21:01 ` Linus Walleij
2009-08-14 21:15 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-08-14 21:35 ` Zan Lynx
2009-08-15 6:21 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-08-14 20:04 ` Denys Vlasenko
2009-08-14 20:43 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-08-15 5:59 ` Dirk Behme
2009-08-15 10:35 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2009-08-18 10:06 ` Marco Stornelli
2009-08-18 10:21 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-08-18 10:34 ` Alex Riesen
2009-08-18 10:44 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-08-18 10:48 ` Alex Riesen
2009-08-18 10:53 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-09-04 16:16 ` Wolfram Sang
2009-09-09 14:33 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2009-09-10 0:03 ` Denys Vlasenko
2009-08-17 19:15 ` Tim Bird
2009-08-17 22:35 ` new ipdelay= option for faster netboot (was Re: New fast(?)-boot results on ARM) Tim Bird
2009-08-18 1:03 ` new ipdelay= option for faster netboot David Miller
2009-08-18 1:24 ` Tim Bird
2009-08-18 1:27 ` David Miller
2009-08-18 1:40 ` Tim Bird
2009-08-18 1:56 ` David Miller
2009-08-19 11:57 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-18 4:56 ` Denys Vlasenko
2009-08-18 5:00 ` David Miller
2009-08-18 1:31 ` Rick Jones
2009-08-18 2:45 ` david
2009-08-18 4:56 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-08-15 6:14 ` New fast(?)-boot results on ARM Artem Bityutskiy
2009-08-18 14:06 ` Sascha Hauer
2009-08-18 15:31 ` Dirk Behme
2009-08-18 16:34 ` Marco Stornelli
2009-08-18 18:23 ` Tim Bird
2009-08-19 7:21 ` Sascha Hauer
2009-08-19 16:20 ` Dirk Behme
2009-08-20 8:57 ` Sascha Hauer
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