[Debian-eeepc-devel] Some experiences with kernel 2.6.31

[Luca Niccoli]

2009/10/9 Luca Niccoli <lultimouomo at gmail.com>:

> My experience with past kernels has been that building things in the
> kernel doesn't speed up the boot process, at least since
> module-init-tools 3.5 - the exception being the drivers needed to
> mount the root filesystem.
> Anyway I'm building a kernel with everything needed built in but
> eeepc_laptop, for obvious reasons.

I tried and it takes 1,5~2 seconds more to boot with everything needed
(but eeepc_laptop) built in the kernel than with almost everything
built as a module (but sata and filesystem drivers)

Cheers,

Luca