Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

From: Richard Cochran
Date: Tue Jan 29 2013 - 02:27:14 EST


On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 02:25:10PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> It's a lot of code for a 50ms boot-time improvement. Does anyone have
> any opinions on whether or not the benefits are worth the cost?

In the embedded space, quick boot is a really important feature to
have. Many people resort to awful hacks in order to improve boot time,
and so I would welcome this option.

I have seen arm systems that boot in 300 ms. I would say that 50 ms is
maybe not such a small improvement after all.

Thanks,
Richard
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