Re: parallel boot device initialisation (kernel-space not userspace)

[Jiri Kosina]

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> I Have A Great Idea(tm) and would like to describe it concisely to see 
> if anyone likes it and hopefully hasn't thought of it before so i'm not 
> consuming people's time. The idea is: parallel device initialisation of 
> built-in modules, to reduce kernel boot time.

Have you looked at CONFIG_PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE which is already present 
in recent kernels?

-- 
Jiri Kosina
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