https://peertube.anduin.net/videos/watch/7ac5be59-70bd-4dfd-b879-8b174b76bbff We all want our devices to boot faster, but how much effort do you want to dedicate to optimizing and maintaining a custom kernel and apps? This presentation offers a graded list of things you can do to reduce boot time. They start with simple changes, such as adjusting the position of your main application the init sequence. Then there are the changes you can make to the kernel and bootloader configuration to speed things up, and finally, there are moderately advanced techniques such as using U-Boot in falcon mode. All of this is done using standard configuration techniques, with the idea of being able to maintain these changes in the future. I will show the effect of each of these changes on typical a embedded dev board so that you can judge for yourself where on the journey you want to jump off. Chris Simmonds is a software consultant and trainer living in southern England. He has spent almost two decades designing and building open-source embedded systems of all shapes and sizes, and he has encapsulated much of that experience in his book, “Mastering Embedded Linux Programming”. He is a frequent presenter at open source and embedded conferences, including the Embedded Linux Conference and Embedded World. You can see some of his work on the “Inner Penguin” blog at www.2net.co.uk https://foss-north.se/2019/speakers-and-talks.html#csimmonds Sun, 10 May 2026 00:20:16 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.anduin.net https://peertube.anduin.net/client/assets/images/icons/icon-1500x1500.png https://peertube.anduin.net/videos/watch/7ac5be59-70bd-4dfd-b879-8b174b76bbff All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.anduin.net/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.