Driver H/W init delay

[Jun OKAJIMA <okajima@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am working on making a very fast booting technology for Linux.
Check this:
http://www.machboot.com/
This boots within 10sec with x48 CD-ROM.
I dont intend to blow my own horn, but not so bad result, dont you?


One of the bottle neck at the moment is, XFree86 driver.
For example, VESA driver seems to spend several seconds for
hardware initialization. Other drivers (S3 or such) also
needs several seconds.

My questions are:

1. This delay really comes from H/W init (or detect)?
2. If so, is there any way to reduce this delay?
   For example, if I hard-code all parameters about H/W to a driver,
   It starts faster?

Especially, I have much interest in tweaking VESA driver.

             --- Okajima, Jun. Tokyo, Japan.
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