Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] prelink: first boot warning

["Jürgen Borleis" <jbe@pengutronix.de>]

Hi Bruno,

On Thursday 18 June 2015 14:51:39 Bruno Thomsen wrote:
> Running prelink with rc.once.d causes a first boot stall
> of about 2 minutes on Freescale i.MX28 454MHz ARM9 processor.
> This can be expensive if first device boot is during product
> manufacturing (assembly, programming, configuration, test).
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruno Thomsen <bth@kamstrup.com>
> ---
>  rules/prelink.in | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/rules/prelink.in b/rules/prelink.in
> index 5d04fb0..1e06200 100644
> --- a/rules/prelink.in
> +++ b/rules/prelink.in
> @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ config PRELINK_RC_ONCE
>  	help
>  	  install a script that will be run on the first boot to
>  	  prelink all programs and libraries.
> +	  warning! this can increase first boot with a few minutes!

With Using a recent linker the prelink becomes redundant. It is already done 
when the linker hash-style it set to "gnu" (which is the default in a recent 
PTXdist).
Or did you still see improvements with or without the pre-link step and that's 
why you are still using this feature?

Regards,
Juergen

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