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

[From: Magnus Deininger]

Well, true that but it sure can be an annoyance if your battery runs  
out and the first thing you notice is that the device is having you  
wait a couple of minutes. And the way I see it, if your device boots  
fast enough, you could just as well shut it down completely instead of  
putting it into stand-by mode, thus essentially giving you unlimited  
stand-by time.

On the bright side, if if bootup times aren't too much of a concern  
for most users, einit also provides for a centralised hardware event  
handler and allows the actions to this to have very little overhead by  
being able to write handlers in C or anything else that compiles to an  
ELF object file. It also has service supervision and provides for  
backup plans if something won't start, which tend to come in handy a  
lot on embedded devices.

-- Magnus

Quoting Frank Banul <frank.banul at gmail.com>:

> 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
>
> ----- Original message -----
> 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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