Kernel includes the initramfs, since it is overhead that occurs before userspace.

Work Items

• Kernel start time is a little over 1.5s, while Moblin's kernel is less than 1s, even though Moblin's kernel builds in many drivers

  • Investigate patches that moblin may have (AndyWhitcroft)

  • Make the populate_rootfs() call happen in parallel with the rest of the kernel startup (AndyWhitcroft)

• i915 drm driver takes 1.5s to init on its own

  • Investigate patches that moblin may have (AndyWhitcroft)

  • and remove need to load i915 from the initramfs (ScottJamesRemnant)

• Clean up initramfs console setting (ScottJamesRemnant)

• Clean up initramfs filesystem mounting to avoid reprobing (ScottJamesRemnant)