[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] I'd like to help improve boot times...

[From: Frank Banul]

Hi,

No offence but I would guess most people don't boot their devices very often. It would be nice to have faster boot times but I rarely boot my device. Just an opinion. I hope it's helpful.

Frank

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Hi there,

I'm Magnus Deininger, aka jyujin, head of the eINIT project, a~nd I'd 
like help the maemo project by improving bootup times. One of my 
friends is telling me that maemo devices are booting 'unbearably slow' 
and that this would be quite the complaint with customers; he's going 
so far as to offer his Nokia 770 for the cause if i can make it boot 
faster.

My pet project (eINIT, http://einit.org) is currently doing reasonably 
well at making computers boot faster, but we haven't tried to make it 
work on too many embedded devices just yet, mostly because we're a bit 
tight on devs and time... and people that would be interested in 
seeing it on their embedded device. We're still doing quite the 
progress in boot times tho, as could be seen by this little video 
(taken by that friend of mine who'd like to see his nokia 770 boot 
faster): 
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-2744120711983143659 . 
That's booting fairly fast, especially considering it boots right into 
compiz... I also made this bootchart: http://omploader.org/vZHdj -- 
which is on my main desktop, without any real optimisations. Both 
boxes (the one in the video, and mine) used to boot in about 1 to 1:20 
minutes before, so that's /quite/ an improvement right there.

Now seeing as my friend has some issues with his device, I'd like to 
help him, and the maemo project, but since I'm a bit tight on time, 
I'd first like to know if anyone else is actually interested in me 
porting eINIT to maemo, since I'd hate setting up a devel environment 
for a single device ;). Which brings me to why I'm posting on this ML 
in the first place: I'd like to know if people /are/ interested in 
this or not. Just get right back at me if there's any interest. I'll 
monitor this ML for the time being, and I'd also like to invite any 
interested developers to join our IRC channel, #einit on freenode.

So, that concludes my offer I think.

Greets, and happy hacking,
Magnus Deininger
http://einit.org/
IRC: jyujin on freenode; #einit

PS.: Oh, not to forget, eINIT is BSD-licenced, so there shouldn't be 
any weird licencing issues from a business POV either, if that would 
ever be an issue.


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