On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
anyway i'll dig the parabola microsd card out again, switch to parallel openrc and boot it up. it might be a bit much for the A20 to handle, but we'll soon see.
ok we're looking at a 21 second boot time to the lightdm login manager with rc_parallel="YES" in /etc/rc.conf and around 25-26 seconds without. to the serial console prompt is around 16 seconds with rc_parallel="YES" and around 20-21 without.
for a 1ghz dual-core embedded processor either isn't bad, and performance does appear to be improved. the amount of time spent by the 3.4.104 kernel in initialising hardware (and informing me about it) does seem to be considerable: around 5-8 seconds of the entire boot time!
l.