IDEA: Shortening boot-time

[Florian Schirmer]

Hi,

>Not all systems use BIOS HID emulation and on some of them we actually
>have to turn it off because it doesn't work properly
>  
>
Doesn't matter. You can start the interactive startup mode even before 
the kernel starts using the bootloader (passing a kernel arg) or what 
ever the system provides (NT/2K/XP do this for example). The interactive 
startup mode is the only thing which has to happen as early as possible. 
All other interactive things can suffer from long(er) delays to catch up 
with the usb/what every bus enum time. If there is a delay it doesn't 
matter wether the user has to wait 10 or 20 seconds since new hardware 
is only detected once in a while. And usually the usb bus is enumerated 
way before the user has finished reading and understanding the question 
the system is displaying ;-)

Regards,
    Florian