Hello Petter, On Monday, September 11, 2006 at 22:41:24 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> a lot of time is spent in hwclockfirst.sh and hwclock.sh. Dropping > these from the boot reduced the boot time from 44 to 28 seconds. Are you sure? They are supposed to take between 1 and 2 seconds. > the kernel seem to read the hardware clock on its own Yes: AFAICS on all arches, since ages. Perhaps since day #1. > and thus do not need hwclock to do it as part of the boot sequence. Well, hwclock deals with timezones and summer time, calculates and compensates the drift, and does a better job. > Because of this, I suggest adding code in hwclock.sh to not do > anything on i386 if the kernel is 2.6 or newer This would gain bootup speed, but cost too much in precision. It would not be a good idea IMHO. Alain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
