IDEA: Shortening boot-time

[Florian Schirmer]

Hi,

>Kudzu depends on USB keyboard being present (as does the "i" key and
>the fsck options stuff). Once there is a USB keyboard present then we
>could proceed (or on a timeout when we conclude there is no keyboard to
>be found)
>  
>

That sounds broken to me. IMHO the interactive stuff (fsck, interactive 
startup) should be invoked as early as possible so that we still have 
the BIOS provided HID emulation. Otherwise a corrupted fs/usb host 
driver may render the system useless.

If we really need the full USB subsystem then why don't we just increase 
the timeout of fsck to account the usb enum delay? That will give  the 
hotplug system enough time to come up with a working HID to control the 
interactive fchk session. /dev/input should handle that just fine.

So i'm not willing to buy this point (yet) :-)

Regards,
   Florian