very common kernel modules slow down the boot process

[Hans de Goede]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 04:55:54PM -0700, Andrew Farris wrote:
>  > Harald Hoyer wrote:
>  > > Compiling these modules, which are loaded on nearly every PC, in the 
>  > > kernel cuts down my boot time from 42s to 32s on my computer:
>  > 
>  > > floppy
>  > 
>  > I was going to suggest you might want to leave that one out, since I wouldn't 
>  > think its that common anymore... then I checked, and this is loaded on my 
>  > machine which has no floppy.
> 
> The code to detect if we have a floppy controller lives... in the floppy module.
> It's not something that's trivially detectable like pci/usb devices.
> 

Isn't this (determing wether or not to load floppy.ko) done (on PC's) by 
checking if the BIOS has a floppy configured?

Andrew, can you see if your BIOS thinks you have a floppy (the default) and if 
so tell it it hasn't, then floppy.ko shouldn't get loaded anymore and that 
should results in a couple of secs ood speedup.

Regards,

Hans