<div dir="auto"><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 14, 2017 8:07 AM, "DJ-Pfulio" <<a href="mailto:djpfulio@jdpfu.com">djpfulio@jdpfu.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="quoted-text"><br>
> If we could only get the HARDWARE side of the boot process faster! I've got some<br>
> very new, very modern server gear that from power on to Linux boot start is<br>
> measured in MINUTES (I'm looking at you IBM!). Why oh why can the BIOS store the<br>
> IDs of the device tree and do a fast "give me your ID scan", ok nothing changed<br>
> so send back an init command to everything to run in parallel.<br>
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</div>You pay IBM extra for all their HW checking and validation. You do realize that?<br>
Better to find an issue at boot than have corrupted data.<br></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">_I_ don't pay IBM for anything. :-)</div><div dir="auto">The bios bloat seems to be in the pico-sized Linux os that is started to provide a web based gui for interacting with the bios. The clock speed of that process seems to be low KHz :-(</div><div dir="auto">The initialization of the individual devices seems to be about the same time span as anything else.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> I keep swearing (more than usual) I'm gonna build by blasted tool called<br>
> "shoehorn" to help squeeze into a tight boot. The basic idea is to PXE boot a<br>
> generic kernel with EVERYTHING as modules, probe all hardware, report back to a<br>
> master server the list of found hardware, it assembles a new kernel with nothing<br>
> but what's needed or points to an existing kernel, set's up a perm PXE boot<br>
> environment based on MACs and then provides the slimmest kernel and initramfs<br>
> possible.<br>
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</div>How is this different from Gentoo? ;) running away ...<br></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ha! I tried 'emerge boot' and only got a slipper :-)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It is actually rather similar. The difference so far is the end point of a PXE boot kernel and settings and the archival of the hardware collection for later reuse by other, identical systems.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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