Disabling the Android boot animation... ?

Hi all,

It seems that the Android boot animation really consumes a lot of CPU. At least when running on the ARM fast models, I see a typical steady- state load (bootanimation+surfaceflinger) of about 65% CPU.

I can kill the boot animation interactively, but does anyone know how to disable it properly? This would likely be a benefit to the test and validation work on the models.

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.

Cheers ---Dave