[OLPC-devel] Re: Boot tasks -- the iPAQ way

[Ronald G Minnich]

Zephaniah E. Hull wrote:

> How does LAB, with a shell environment and all, compare boot speed and
> size wise with some of the current initramfs work?

it's 10 seconds to an ash prompt from power on. Most of that time is 
spent watching linux bootup. I don't think you're going to buy more than 
a fraction of a second on startup.

> 
> I have not looked at the size usage for a tailored shared library and
> binaries compiled against it for klibc, but given the size of the
> library and binaries compiled staticly against it, and the flexibility
> it would give us for it to all be userspace and yet still very tiny...

I have not tried klibc, would like to know if it really is smaller than 
uclibc ...

ron