Subject: Re: Improving ramdisk uncompression time...

From: "Nguyen Trung Thanh" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:59:38 +0800

Hi,

We can make a specific ramdisk by splitting it into
64KB parts, and let it there...
Everytime, we need to read some thing from ramdisk,
we read from the buffer or decompress a part from
that ramdisk.
It'll save you much time while booting and more than 2MB RAM, as well.

Is it cool?
Jari

----- Original Message -----
From: "Subodh Nijsure" <[email-masked]>
>
> Hello,
>
> My setup has rather large ramdisk 5MB as the ramdisk contains
> firmware for other boards in the system. In total boot time of
> about 60 seconds, close to 50% is spent in uncompressing the ramdisk.
>
> Has anybody tried building ramdisk with bizp2, what other ideas
> one might consider to "speed up" the boot time particularly uncompressing
> the ramdisk...
>
> /Subodh Nijsure

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