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On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 12:47:25PM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > The bootup sequence of Linux is pathetic. What an ungodly mess. The > FSTAB file needs to go and a smarter system needs to be developed. I > know this isn't entirely a kernel issue but it is somewhat related. depinit. written by richard lightman. easily located with google. on relatively inexpensive amd 2100 hardware, depinit results in a startup time to console login of 5 seconds, and x-windows in a further 3. this is probably as good a time as any to mention this: depinit on a 2.6 kernel has had to have a small script added which does a sleep 3; kill -HUP <itself> - i.e. "kill -HUP 1". if this is not done, then any child program that sends a signal to process 1 is NOT SEEN. richard believes the problem to be actually in the 2.6 kernel. whilst /sbin/init only catches one signal, depinit catches quite literally _all_ of them. i'm relaying this from memory, so some of the above may be inaccurate. > I think development needs to be done to make the kernel cleaner and > smarter rather than just bigger and faster. actually, on embedded systems the linux 2.6 kernel is bigger and slower, which has prompted a large number of embedded systems designers to stick with the [by now abandoned] 2.4 series. > Marc Perkel > Linux Visionary ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ wha-heeeeey ! my main concern, btw, is that by the time linux kernel developers "receive hardware to play with", it's already too late. the hardware decisions have already been made. you - worthy as you are and the work you are doing is - are treated as second class citizens by the companies manufacturing hardware. time to put the horse before the cart. l. -- -- <a href="http://lkcl.net">http://lkcl.net</a> -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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