Schedule for Monday's FESCo Meeting (2012-06-18)

[drago01]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet at amorsen.dk> wrote:
> Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It takes me 4 seconds to POST, boot the kernel, get into
>> system-update.service, and then reboot. Using a new rpm version,
>> applying several dozen test updates takes another 20 seconds.
>
> Your hardware is too cheap. BIOS boot time is proportional to price when
> the hardware was introduced.
>
> More generally, the fact that your hardware happens to boot fast does
> not mean that extra reboots are not a problem.

If boot time is your concern we can make it (after BIOS) way faster by
simply not enable lots of stuff that sits there
unused after boot.