Re: How to enable DMA at boot time
On Sun 1 Dec 2002 19:23:03 +0000(-0600), Shyamal Prasad wrote:
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> >> 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.
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Cheers,
Clive
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