[Buildroot] Systemd update

Diego Iastrubni diegoiast at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 06:03:31 UTC 2012


(forwarding to the list, I hope you don't mind)


On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Dmitry Golubovsky <golubovsky at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Here is dmesg output on a VM:
>
> http://pastebin.com/ZbQmMiTU
>
> [   16.881460] systemd[1]: Startup finished in 14s 40ms 662us (kernel)
> + 2s 840ms 704us (userspace) = 16s 881ms 366us.
>
> of these 16sec:
>
> [    0.392041] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
> [   13.790005] Freeing initrd memory: 37216k freed
>
> 13 secs were spent to unpack initrd. So it could be under 10sec from
> boot to DHCP ready.
>
>
I concern is this: *is* systemd faster then traditional int?
Does paralyzing those things decrease boot time? Can this benefit the
embedded community?

I would like to review a similar setup for something like the RPI and
measure there. I need to find time for this (I am still fighting my RPI
setup... the biggest problem is that its not trivial to get a console.. so
all I have to test is my 40" TV... not ideal for kernel messages...)
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