F10A Blue Knight Rider - KITT are we there yet?
Arjan van de Ven
arjan at infradead.org
Mon Aug 11 18:14:26 UTC 2008
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:25:48 -0400
Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 06:33 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:09:18 -0400
> > Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > I have an updated progress bar for plymouth that should hit
> > > rawhide later today. It's still wrong, in that it doesn't
> > > estimate how much longer it'll be, but it does go back to having
> > > a solid bar that fills up as time progresses.
> > >
> > > There's no sane way to actually estimate how long it'll take to
> > > boot, short of recording the previous boot time. Which is what
> > > we'll do, of course.
> >
> > personally I have to say that I dislike splash screens... mostly
> > because I want to be *done* by the time the splash screen is up ;-)
> >
> > Oh well.. that's a topic more suitable for my plumbers conference
> > presentation than this mailing list =)
> > (where I'll show why I think I'm right on this one ;-)
>
> Get me a kernel that manages to get to initramfs in under five
> seconds, and we'll talk.
[various patches posted to lkml]
>
> Not that you're wrong, but at the moment you're only academically
> right.
eyeing the eeepc on my desk...
guess it'll be an academic eeepc until plumbers ;)
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