Kernel question

From: Bryan Maynard (bryan.maynard_at_reallm.com)
Date: 06/29/05

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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:15:59 +0000

    Hey helpful friends! :-D

    I would like to conduct an experiment: down the road (a couple years maybe)
    I'd like to start building and selling PCs. I'd like these PCs to run FreeBSD
    - because it's the best ;-). These machines will be a slightly different from
    the current crop in that they will be laptops that will not have PCMCIA slots
    or CD/DVD drives (these items will be held in a separate "breakout box"). The
    machines wil lbe completely sealed with the exception of the various memory
    card (SD, CompactFlash, Memory stick, etc.) embeded in the monitor casing.

    There's much more to these machines, but I'll save those details for the
    appropriate place - my question for here is this:

    I'd like to minimize boot time as much as possible. Since these machines will
    not ever have hardware added or changed I would like to statically build as
    much device information as early in the boot process as possible.

    I understand that FreeBSD has a three stage boot process. I'm a bit fuzzy as
    to what happens when, but was wondering how, or if, I could cut out any of
    these stages - and shorten the remaining stages as much as possible.

    I've looked around loader.conf, device.hints, <KERNEL>.hints, and such and
    this is what got me wondering.

    If you all need anymore info please let me know.

    Thanks a lot!

    Bryan 

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