From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <001b01c14cc3$a926a3a0$b480a984@int.serialsystem.com.sg> From: "Nguyen Trung Thanh" To: "Subodh Nijsure" , "'linuxppc-embedded '" References: Subject: Re: Improving ramdisk uncompression time... Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:59:38 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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" > > 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 ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/