2.6.28-rc1 boots like lightning!

Emopig · Apprentice Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Posts: 188

Hey peeps,

Long time since I've posted on these forums. Has anyone tried 2.6.28-rc1 yet? I tried it today and found my CD/DVD drive didn't work, found a patch that fixed it (commited after -rc1), and I have noticed my kernel and init boots MUCH faster than with 2.6.27.

Discuss.
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alex.blackbit · Advocate Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 2397

a objective comparison of boot times would be nice, e.g. with app-benchmarks/bootchart.

ToeiRei · Veteran Joined: 03 Jan 2005 Posts: 1191 Location: Austria

I have skimmed through the changelog and found some notes about "fastboot patches"
in other words, things are speeding up as more things are done in parallel

Rei
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cyrillic · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:29 pm Post subject:

I had a rough time booting 2.6.28-rc1 on my amd64 machine.

Vesafb seemed to be broken, and libata was giving me a lot of timeouts while probing the DVD drives, plus it crashed on shutdown.

So, for now, I am crawling back to 2.6.27.3

Emopig · Apprentice Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Posts: 188

cyrillic,

The ATA timeouts only effects SATA (and maybe PATA?) devices that don't support NCQ, and the issue is fixed as of rc1-git1.
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cyrillic · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:33 am Post subject:

I guess the kernel devs noticed some problems with -rc1, so they pushed out -rc2 in a hurry.

I didn't notice any speed improvements with 2.6.28-rc2, but then my machine was pretty fast already.