Re: Boot-time initiative (SIG) thoughts and next steps

[Brian Masney <bmasney@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 03:33:29PM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 6:30 PM Bird, Tim <Tim.Bird@sony.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 11:18 AM Bird, Tim <Tim.Bird@sony.com> wrote:
> > > > = wiki account =
> > > > The wiki where we'll be maintaining information about
> > > > boot time, and about activities of the boot time SIG, is the elinux wiki.
> > > > The page we'll be focusing on is: https://elinux.org/Boot_Time.
> > > > If you are interested in helping update and maintain the information there
> > > > (which I hope almost everyone is), then please make sure you have a user
> > > > account on the wiki.
> > > > If you don't have one, please go here:
> > > > https://elinux.org/Special:RequestAccount
> > > > I have to manually approve accounts in order to fight spambots.  It might
> > > > take a few days for me to get to your request.  It's very helpful if you
> > > > put a comment in one of the request fields about this being related to
> > > > the boot-time initiative or SIG, so I can distinguish your request from
> > > > spam requests.
> > >
> > > Can we instead keep this all a part of the kernel docs instead of the
> > > wiki? Couple of reasons for that:
> >
> > Ideally, we would put some material in the wiki, and also
> > produce a document - some kind of "boot-time tuning guide" that can
> > live in the kernel tree.
> 
> This is the part I care most about being in the kernel docs. Eg: what
> configs to use. What commandline params to set. Dos and Don'ts for the
> drivers, etc. So, good to see that is an acceptable option.

I'm interested to help contribute to a boot speed document, and I
suspect some others at Red Hat are interested as well. Personally,
I would prefer to have a section in the kernel documentation over a
Wiki. Besides arch-specific recommendations, we can also contribute
some boot speed improvement techniques that we've done that are
specific to RT.

In addition to the recommended configs, I think it would also be
beneficial to list some upstream patches that improve boot speed along
with the kernel version it was introduced in.

Brian