Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Dec 2006 17:42:21 +0000 | From | Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <> | Subject | Re: parallel boot device initialisation (kernel-space not userspace) |
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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.
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