[Linaro-big-little] Disabling the Android boot animation... ?

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Dave Martin wrote:

> After killing the boot animation, I can boot a fresh release to the
> desktop in under 8 minutes on the model, with full cache modelling
> disabled.  A preinitialised image will boot to the unlock screen in
> around 2.5 minutes.

I think we complain too much.  things could be way worse! ;-)

http://dmitry.co/index.php?p=./04.Thoughts/07.%20Linux%20on%208bit

"uARM is certainly no speed demon. It takes about 2 hours to boot to 
 bash prompt ("init=/bin/bash" kernel command line). Then 4 more hours 
 to boot up the entire Ubuntu ("exec init" and then login). Starting X
 takes a lot longer."


Nicolas