Hello,

For FastModels the overhead comes mainly from changes to the framebuffer. If you don't want to remove the bootanimation service entirely you could make a boot animation with only one frame. In my experience this simple change made a drastic difference in boot time (reduced by half), without having to disable the service.

Regards.

On 29 March 2012 12:43, Chris Redpath <Chris.Redpath@arm.com> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Martin [mailto:dave.martin@linaro.org]
> Sent: 29 March 2012 11:31
> To: Chris Redpath
> Cc: linaro-android@lists.linaro.org; linaro-big-little@lists.linaro.org
> Subject: Re: [Linaro-big-little] Disabling the Android boot
> animation... ?
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Chris Redpath <Chris.Redpath@arm.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > One way to hack it so it never starts is just to rename the
> bootanimation executable in /system/bin.
> >
> > I just tried it and my Android boots in a reported 2m or so, about 5
> minutes of real time. You get a line like this in the boot output but
> there are no apparent ill-effects.
> >
> > [   14.863680] init: cannot find '/system/bin/bootanimation',
> disabling 'bootanim'
>
> Hmmm, simple but effective...
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> ---Dave

Incidentally, if you just remove the service definition you get a notification from init each time something tries to start and stop the service - so you can kind of see when boot starts and stops from the output. I have no idea what is trying to start/stop bootanim though :)

Chris

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