Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 02:52:23PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> said:
> > > How long is "significantly"?  How hard is it to check for a keypress?
> > 
> > On the order of a second or two.
> 
> That doesn't seem all that significant to me; I guess we have different
> measures (to me "significantly slow down the boot process" would be
> something on the order of 5-10 seconds or more).

It's over a third of the boot time that Lennart's been discussing.

> > How much detail would you like for the 
> > second question?
> 
> Well, it seems like 1-2 seconds is a long time just to check, but that
> was a rhetorical question.

USB wasn't designed for rapid initialisation and enumeration.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org