initramfs-tools stable release 0.93.3

Seewer Philippe philippe.seewer at bfh.ch
Fri Aug 7 07:37:24 UTC 2009


Scott James Remnant wrote:
[snip]
>>> Slimming the initramfs right down to the essentials reduces the boot
>>> time by over a second!  Paradoxically, this means that the driver can be
>>> loaded in the real system at roughly the same time point as it would be
>>> loaded in a bloated initramfs.
>> well afair the intel fast boot doesn't use initramfs in the fast path
>> at all
>>
> Our fast boot does use an initramfs.

This is a bit offtopic: Do you have any more info about intel fast boot? 
I use an intel atom board at home which supposedly has intel fast boot, 
but I haven't found any info on how to make use of that.

Thanks,
Philippe

> 
> Scott




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