From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1426062AbWLHRmn (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Dec 2006 12:42:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760784AbWLHRmn (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Dec 2006 12:42:43 -0500 Received: from free.hands.com ([83.142.228.128]:59807 "EHLO free.hands.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760782AbWLHRmm (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Dec 2006 12:42:42 -0500 Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 17:42:21 +0000 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton To: Jiri Kosina Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-discuss@handhelds.org Subject: Re: parallel boot device initialisation (kernel-space not userspace) Message-ID: <20061208174221.GE4666@lkcl.net> References: <4758137481lkcl@lkcl.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 X-hands-com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: lkcl@lkcl.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 05:38:47PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > > I Have A Great Idea(tm) and would like to describe it concisely to see > > if anyone likes it and hopefully hasn't thought of it before so i'm not > > consuming people's time. The idea is: parallel device initialisation of > > built-in modules, to reduce kernel boot time. > > Have you looked at CONFIG_PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE which is already present > in recent kernels? ah _ha_. thank you! honestly? no - because the small devices i'm compiling for don't have a pci bus, ha ha :) but seriously - thank you for pointing that out, i'll definitely investigate it. l. -- -- lkcl.net - mad free software computer person, visionary and poet. --