Hi!
> There ought to be _some_ initializations that don't require interrupts?
> Registering the file systems and network protocols, stuff like that?
Give up on IDE, it is too broken.
You should get away with paralelising USB and SCSI scan.
Perhaps you can speed boot up with initrd+modules, possibly improving module
inits (but they are probably good enough). With modules, I can imagine
USB+SCSI scans running in paralel.
Pavel
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