[Gnewsense-dev] Re: Initrd or not

[Daniel Clark]

Richard Stallman wrote:
> It would be good to build Linux for the Yeelong in two ways, one using
> Initrd and one not using Initrd, and see which starts up faster.  This
> is going to be a significant aspect of the machine's attractiveness,
> so it ought to be chosen the way that is best.
> 
> This affects resuming after hibernation, as well as real booting.

FYI an initrd-free version (which also includes ftrace support, to try
to track down the I/O crash issue) is now up for peoples testing
pleasure at:

http://config.fsf.org/misc/linux-image-2.6.32.2-libre-lemote2_2.6.32.2-libre-lemote2-10.00.Custom_mipsel.deb

(I'll try it later today)

FYI this is the first time I've used distcc to do the compile (I'll send
out an announcement about that when it gets a little nicer); it cut
compile time at least in half, from around 4 hours to 2 hours; I think
there is room for improvement to get it down to 1.5h or less (possibly
much less if SiCortex stuff works out.)

(source and "live" build tree are also up at http://config.fsf.org/misc )

-- 
Daniel JB Clark   | Sys Admin, Free Software Foundation
pobox.com/~dclark | http://www.fsf.org/about/staff#danny

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