init observations

[Mike Chambers]

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 16:12 -0500, Dimi Paun wrote:

> Fast, but can we do better? Why do we need to bring up
> the networking before we start X? Also, is it feasible
> to probe for just some hardware (disk, video), start x,
> then continue with the hardware probing? Will it be any
> faster if we get rid of the wrappers? Would readahead
> help here at all?
> 
> Basically, can we have X up in 10s? :)

Not a developer or programmer, but what about those systems that use
x/fonts from a server and not on the workstation?  How would X start
without networking capabilities?

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

"It's better to hurt a little now, than to hurt a lot later!"