First impressions of a B4 machine

[Mitch Bradley]

Ivan Krstić wrote:
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> There's a fastboot version of the firmware that can boot the machine  
> in 3-4 seconds. The boot time, as we get closer to production, will  
> start shrinking towards those numbers.
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That counts only the time it takes for the firmware to load the Linux 
kernel into memory, and does not include the Linux and X server startup 
times.

And even ignoring the Linux startup time, we won't get to the 4-second 
level unless we partition the FLASH, because of the JFFS2 mount time.

We hope that booting will be infrequent as a result of our power 
management capabilities - suspend/resume will be frequent, fast, and 
seamless.

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