[LinuxBIOS] Crazy idea? LinuxBios+Suspend 2

Adam Talbot talbotx at comcast.net
Wed Dec 13 08:34:39 CET 2006


Ouch...  well that just shot me down in flames.  But, VERY good point.
Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> * Adam Talbot <talbotx at comcast.net> [061211 23:39]:
>   
>> My current system takes about 3 seconds for Linuxbios, then 2 more for
>> kernel, to the suspend2 code, then 7~12sec depending on how much
>> compression I am using on the suspend2 image. 
>>     
>
> Just a thought, the firmware level IDE driver is usually not using DMA
> or any advanced reading methods, and as such a lot slower than the 
> according Linux driver. You might have a hard time keeping the 2s the
> kernel needs.
>
>   
>> So a total boot time of about 15 seconds. Up and playing music, with
>> full X.  A normal boot is 33 sec, to get to a full X + music playing.
>> I want sub 10.  
>>     
>
> Your calculation goes with 3+2+10s - Instead of tuning the 3s or 2s, you
> might instead start improving on the biggest piece of the cake: the 10s.
>
> I would assume the 2s kernel do some initialization that are expected to
> happen for the suspend code to work. So even if you manage to win 2s
> by not booting a kernel, you might have quite some other things to
> "fix".
>
> S.
>
>
>   





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