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Re: How to enable DMA at boot time



On Sun  1 Dec 2002 19:23:03 +0000(-0600), Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> 
>     >> Is most of the time spent building module dependencies?
> 
>     Clive> How would I measure that?
> 
> If you are using one of the pre-packaged 2.4.x kernels from Debian
> then it will be modular. During boot you will see a "Calculating
> module dependencies...." message followed by much disk whirring. For
> me, this is the single slowest step during a boot. I just measure it
> with a stop watch (actually, I count seconds ;-)

Yes, I'm using kernel-image-2.4.18-k7. It took 15 seconds to calculate module dependencies.

-- 
Cheers,
Clive



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