[boot] Decrease boot time from 10 to 5 seconds #2073
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So it is faster when booting from floppy on minix ? But untested on real hardware? |
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Yes, quite a bit faster. But agreed the system should have more testing, and especially on real hardware. I'll cut a v0.8.1 without it, as discussed in #2075 (comment). |
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On QEMU emulating floppy disk delays, boot time for MINIX images is halved from 10 to 5 seconds.
Adds
image/Image.allas first directories and files to all MINIX images.Creates frequently-accessed /dev entries first for less directory searching.
Decrease size of /bin/getty by turning off @-sequence processing by default.
Renames SHOW_STARTUP option to BOOT_TIMER in getty.c.
Cleanup and retab getty.c source.