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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Jaap-Jan Boor <jjboor@aimsys.nl>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org, JACK HWAN <jhfami@yahoo.co.kr>
Subject: Re: Booting time
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:52:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040210195247.432DDC1215@atlas.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:48:54 +0100." <93314AB1-5B9D-11D8-B8DD-000A95B15278@aimsys.nl>


Dear Jaap-Jan,

in message <93314AB1-5B9D-11D8-B8DD-000A95B15278@aimsys.nl> you wrote:
>
> > For a "standard" system with 50 MHz CPU and 50 MHz bus  clock  I  can
> > demonstrate  that  it takes not more than 3...4 seconds from power on
> > until the first application process is running.
>
> What kind of setup is that? A very small ramdisk or flash disk?

This is with a standard setup; root filesystem size is in  the  range
of  5...10 MB. It works with a ramdisk (if not compressed), or with a
MTD based (non-compressing) filesystem. The  second  option  is  more
efficient regarding memory footprint in RAM.

A MTD mounted (read-only) ext2 filesystem in flash is pretty fast.

> Does the (u-) boot loader do extensive ram tests?

Just the basic tests which are also used to auto-size the RAM.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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      reply	other threads:[~2004-02-10 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-09  1:39 Booting time JACK HWAN
2004-02-09  4:10 ` Eugene Surovegin
2004-02-09 13:44 ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-02-10  7:48   ` Jaap-Jan Boor
2004-02-10 19:52     ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]

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