iMX35 3stack framebuffer problem

[Robert Schwebel]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:57:15AM +0200, Boaz Ben-David wrote:
> The kernel size is almost 5MB (it includes an initramfs).
>
> 8 seconds are from the time I call "bootm uImage" and until the init script in
> the initramfs kicks in.
>
> If I can seriously shorten this time I will be glad to know, maybe there's
> something I missed.

Do you really need such a big image? Making things as small as possible
in the first place and load everything that's possible at a later time
is a good strategy for quickboot scenarios.

The elinux reference is a good one for boot time reduction. Their wiki
has a long list of possibilities.

rsc
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