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Bug#893845: initramfs-tools: Add LZ4 support

From Paul Menzel <pmenzel+bugs.debian.org@molgen.mpg.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject Bug#893845: initramfs-tools: Add LZ4 support
Date 2018-03-23 09:40 +0100
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Dear Bastian,


On 03/23/2018 09:07 AM, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 08:16:11AM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
>> As for some users boot speed is quite important, shaving 400 ms off the boot
>> time is quite nice.
> 
> And then they use BIOS which is aweful slow in disk access, so the time
> is used instead to actually read the blocks from disk?

Sure, the majority of the systems have that problem of slow firmware, 
currently it’s UEFI firmware and not the BIOS anymore, and only a few 
have alternatives like coreboot or U-Boot. I do not see how that is 
related though to the bug report.

But as you brought it up, my Lenovo X60 the coreboot firmware takes less 
than 500 ms, and on the ASRock E350M1 around one second with SeaBIOS as 
payload.

Additionally, millions of laptops run coreboot on Google Chromebooks and 
Chromeboxes. So yes, there are devices out there, where you can get boot 
times to the login screen in well below ten seconds, and it’d be great 
if developers and users would focus on this issue too, that means, 
monitor/benchmark/instrument these things, document it, and report bugs 
and feature requests about this.


Kind regards,

Paul

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Bug#893845: initramfs-tools: Add LZ4 support Paul Menzel <pmenzel+bugs.debian.org@molgen.mpg.de> - 2018-03-23 08:30 +0100
  Bug#893845: initramfs-tools: Add LZ4 support Bastian Blank <bblank@thinkmo.de> - 2018-03-23 09:10 +0100
    Bug#893845: initramfs-tools: Add LZ4 support Paul Menzel <pmenzel+bugs.debian.org@molgen.mpg.de> - 2018-03-23 09:40 +0100
  Bug#893845: marked as done (initramfs-tools: Add LZ4 support) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2018-07-19 02:30 +0200

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