LetuxOS U-Boot

Issue 52: Fast Boot optimizations

Reported by Nikolaus Schaller, Apr 23, 2010

Boot time can be optimized.
See: 
http://swiftbeagle.googlecode.com/files/beagleboard_project_hui_keji.
pdf

Comment 1 by Nikolaus Schaller, Apr 26, 2010

See also: http://swiftboot.com/

Comment 2 by Nikolaus Schaller, Jul 13, 2010

Owner: hns

Comment 3 by Nikolaus Schaller, Dec 14, 2016

An official method is the "Falcon Mode" of U-Boot:

http://www.denx.de/wiki/pub/U-Boot/MiniSummitELCE2013/2013-ELCE-U-Boo
t-Falcon-Boot.pdf
http://schedule2012.rmll.info/IMG/pdf/LSM2012_UbootFalconMode_Babic.p
df

For this to work we should
* add the commands to create a fast boot kernel to the flashing 
process
* flash the falcon mode image to nand
* we should define the AUX button as "ESCAPE" to break 
into U-Boot console

Created: 14 years 6 months ago by Nikolaus Schaller

Updated: 7 years 10 months ago

Status: New

Owner: Nikolaus Schaller

Labels:
Priority:Medium
Type:Enhancement