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Embedded Linux Achieves One-Second Boot Time

Posted by timothy on from the all-it-does-is-operate-the-power-button dept.

Sam writes "A new goalpost has been set in the race for faster bootup times. MontaVista Software announced (and demonstrated at the Virtual Freescale Technology Forum) a dashboard application going from cold boot to operational in one second flat on their embedded Linux platform. Although this is unlikely to immediately benefit your average Linux user, previous real-time patches have eventually made their way into the main kernel."

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  1. Been there, done that by alain94040 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm surprised that this is news. I remember working a few years ago on booting Linux (also the MontaVista version) in 600 million cycles flat, which for a CPU running at 600 MHz, is exactly one second as well.

    You can even still: watch a video of this here

  2. Re:That's pretty cool... by jd · · Score: 5, Informative

    CoreBoot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) will boot a full Linux kernel on a general-purpose machine in 3 seconds. Ok, it's two seconds longer, but it ain't bad.

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  3. Direct link to MontaVista Video on YouTube by Qubit · · Score: 5, Informative

    The video was hard to find on the given links. One of them even had the audacity to ask me to log in to view it. Yeah, as if.

    One Second Linux Boot Demonstration (new version)

    Also, kudos on the music choice. The wah-wah pedal in the opening music really gives the tech demo that "porn soundtrack" feel I know you were going for.

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  4. Re:It's 1980 all over again by noname444 · · Score: 3, Informative

    A DX2, at 266 MHz, in the early 90s? If this is an Intel 486 we're talking about I think you've gotten the numbers a bit wrong. Mine ran at 33 MHz.

  5. Re:It's 1980 all over again by Nethemas+the+Great · · Score: 4, Informative

    FACT NAZI Observation: The 486DX came in 20, 25, 33 or if you were unlucky 50Mhz variants. Consequently a clock doubled (DX2) 486 was not capable of anything close to 266Mhz. That wasn't achieved until the Tillamook-Pentium much later.

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  6. Re:Completely overrated and someone else did it fi by synthesizerpatel · · Score: 5, Informative

    Found it.

    Originally posted by 'Mohanky' June 2008:

    http://wiki.davincidsp.com/index.php/All_This_For_1_Second_Boot