Quote: Simon Hobson wrote:
> I suppose that one REALLY good way to fix the problem (at least in the
> server & desktop areas) is actually to undo a lot of "progress" and make
> all driver and service initiation strictly linear. Ie, do away with all
> this parallelism and make all drivers be loaded strictly in sequence, one
> after the other, in a defined order. I strongly suspect that it wouldn't
> hugely impact boot times either.

OR do NOT load non-essential drivers and daemons until they are
required. For booting up the system load only the essential minimum.