Boot charting

> 
> It isn't the process of determining what hardware is present which is most
> time-consuming (though that will get a lot faster in Dapper), it's the
> actual loading of the drivers.
> 

what about having at least the functionality which is most probably
needed on the majority of the machines be compiled in the kernel instead
of as a module - ALSA, USB, the most common filesystems and drivers. The
average module size is < 100Kb

Jani