Kernel configuration options

[Mitch Bradley]

david at lang.hm wrote:
> <rant>
> ... the biggest benefits look like they would be in 
> cleaning up the userspace boot process. there is a _lot_ of stuff started 
> that may not be needed in the stable hardware environment of the XO laptop 
> where there is really only one program active at a time (dbus comes to 
> mind)
>
> remember that XO is based on Fedora, which is designed for maximum 
> features and flexibility, not for efficiancy. This translates into poor 
> performance for the user.
>   

Please add specific suggestions to http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4349 .  
That ticket serves as a collector for boot speedup experiments.

Tested results are especially useful; off-the-cuff ideas less so.