[haiku-development] Re: Demo CD (was Re: Re: BButton colors?)

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:49:17 +0100 CET

> "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>  ...
> > What people really ask is demo cd... though it
> > currently seems quite slow to boot, so it would
> > probably not give a good first impression :-(
>
> Perhaps one could write tools to analyze a typical
> CD boot BFS access pattern, and then try to reorder
> the image contents and do more prefetching?
>
> Perhaps limit the amount of multithreaded access
> when booting off CD?
>
> More sleeping or waiting on the previous stage to
> finish, in the CD bootscript?
>

Now with Bootscript.cd not loading media_server and others I got <3min
to Installer.

Also note that serial debugging is enabled by default IIRC, that
doesn't help.

François.

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