[U-Boot] boot-up time optimization. Where to start?

[Alexander Stein]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, 27. April 2011, 15:39:18 schrieb Simon Schwarz:
> I just started to work on my bachelor thesis. It is about "Linux boot-up
> time optimization". The past days I spend analyzing what consumes the most
> time in the boot process.
> 
>  I found that u-boot takes pretty much as long as the whole Linux kernel
> (the one we are using).
> 
> I started digging into the source and I think I have a big picture of what
> is going on. I already learned from the mailing list that it is a good idea
> to start a discussion early if you plan to change something and want it
> upstream. At this point of my thesis I'am free to choose where I start -
> only string attached is that if it is platform specific it has to be TI
> OMAP3.
> 
> So here is my question: Where do you see the most potential to optimize
> u-boot?

Setting stdin, stdout and stderr takes a lot of time (IIRC ~500ms). Which IMO 
is useless on a bootloader without LCD support.

Regards,
Alexander