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Peter Stuge wrote: |
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>> Not critiquing, but I need a smallish board for an embedded |
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>> mailserver project and have looked around for various things which |
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>> fit the bill. |
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>> Alix seems best bang for buck so far? |
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> Depends on your planned traffic load. The Geode LX is cool and all, |
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> and has decent performance, but it is in no way a throughput monster. |
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> <shameless plug> |
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> If you're going to get an ALIX board I can recommend replacing the |
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> BIOS with coreboot for a completely open source system. There is good |
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> support for a few ALIX boards. http://coreboot.org/ |
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> </plug> |
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Ohh cool! I didn't know of that! |
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Actually you raise an interesting question - for this project it's a |
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very low use box, just for a couple of users, but I want as fast boot |
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time as possible. Right now I just a basic 2.6 kernel (recommended |
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.config file appreciated if anyone has any optimisations for Geode - |
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mine if fairly pared down already though), but it's taking a good 10-15 |
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seconds to boot the kernel which seems quite a bit longer than I would |
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have expected? It seems to spend quite a bit of time initialising |
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hardware (not yet spent any time working on this though - possibly I |
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still have too much compiled into the kernel.) |
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If anyone has any notes on increasing kernel boot speed I would be |
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interested in links. There are some very old notes on the IBM site |
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somewhere, but they seem too far out of date to be terribly useful. I |
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don't need sub second boot speeds, but it would be useful to get some |
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idea where the boot time goes? Does coreboot have anything to help me |
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get the kernel up faster? |
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For reference I'm talking about before where I think bootchart helps, |
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but actually how to get the kernel to initialise faster. As an aside, I |
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haven't tried baselayout2+openrc on these Alix boards yet, but on my |
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main (normal) machines OpenRC transforms the boot times to just a few |
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seconds - very impressive |
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Cheers |
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Ed W |