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