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From: "Nguyen Trung Thanh" <jari.nguyen@serialsystem.com.sg>
To: "Subodh Nijsure" <SNijsure@SkyStream.com>,
	"'linuxppc-embedded '" <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Improving ramdisk uncompression time...
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:59:38 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001b01c14cc3$a926a3a0$b480a984@int.serialsystem.com.sg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: B25E2E5A003CD311B61E00902778AF2A02637AD2@SERVER1


Hi,

We can make a specific ramdisk by splitting it into
64KB parts, and let it there...
Everytime, we need to read some thing from ramdisk,
we read from the buffer or decompress a part from
that ramdisk.
It'll save you much time while booting and more than 2MB RAM, as well.

Is it cool?
Jari

----- Original Message -----
From: "Subodh Nijsure" <SNijsure@SkyStream.com>
>
> Hello,
>
> My setup has rather large ramdisk 5MB as the ramdisk contains
> firmware for other boards in the system. In total boot time of
> about 60 seconds, close to 50% is spent in uncompressing the ramdisk.
>
> Has anybody tried building ramdisk with bizp2, what other ideas
> one might consider to "speed up" the boot time particularly uncompressing
> the ramdisk...
>
> /Subodh Nijsure


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-04 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-04  8:54 Improving ramdisk uncompression time Subodh Nijsure
2001-10-04 10:59 ` Nguyen Trung Thanh [this message]
2001-10-04 16:27 ` Kenneth Johansson

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