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From: Geoff Smith <gjsmith@vardr.com>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Just how fast is barebox?
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:54:56 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikxqQzp2HWV=Tenu6TTs1BjsBpNURqyigOkf-ZQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110328084642.GG7285@pengutronix.de>


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Thanks, very helpful info.

Looks like I may have to do something light weight like ecos.
I believe redboot is based on ecos so there may be a starting point there
for the i.mx27.

Regards
Geoff


On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>wrote:

> Hi Geoff,
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 01:25:18PM +1000, Geoff Smith wrote:
> > Apologies for the newbie question. I am looking for a fastboot option for
> >  the i.MX27
> >
> > I want to be capturing video data from a cold start within 300ms
> (preferably
> > 200ms).
>
> The best I could get out of an i.MX27 was about 700ms. The main limiting
> factor is how fast you can load an image from the boot medium (Nand
> flash in my case). Given that I can read from Nand with 16MB/s a 5MB
> image takes about 300ms to load. I think you'll need many dirty tricks
> doing this with Linux, like a massively stripped down kernel and perhaps
> starting the capture in the kernel (not in the application).
>
> I wouldn't say it's not possible, but it's definitely a hard task.
>
> Sascha
>
>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-28  3:25 Geoff Smith
2011-03-28  8:46 ` Sascha Hauer
2011-03-28 11:54   ` Geoff Smith [this message]

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