swiftBoot Demo by MPC Data – Booting Linux in less than 1 second

www.swiftboot.com Demonstration of MPC Data’s swiftboot engineering services, providing sub second boot speeds for embedded Linux devices. The demo board: ARM cortex-a8 soc running at 500mhz Texas Instruments 3530 EVM board. NAND flash file system 2.6.29 Linux kernel

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10 Responses to swiftBoot Demo by MPC Data – Booting Linux in less than 1 second

  1. DaVince21 says:

    You could say it CAN be, given enough developers with an interest getting it to run that fast, and removing anything you don’t need of course.

  2. ejuan73 says:

    Oh i forgot:
    Can windowze be free free as in speech, and as in beer?

    Nope, NEVER!

  3. ejuan73 says:

    Yes, it can:
    Google yes-linux-can-run-crysis

    BTW, can windowze power the Top10 supercomputers? NO IT CAN’T!! LOL
    Google Top500
    :P

  4. solidliqs says:

    That’s awesome! I guess the idea of using a Linux SBC to create a custom car stereo is feasible after all!

  5. Creocsial says:

    Very impressive.

  6. Mukdener says:

    schnellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

  7. ElbartKAC says:

    But can it run Crysis?

  8. Frap357 says:

    Crazt fast!
    Didn’t know Linux were that fast…

  9. andrewmurraympc says:

    The final timings were:

    Reset -> XLoader/UBoot handover – 0.234s
    XLoader/UBoot handover -> UBoot/Kernel handover – 0.053s
    UBoot/Kernel handover -> Init Process – 0.177s
    Init Process -> Video On Display – 0.406s

  10. 63scooby says:

    Impressive!

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