Boot Time Presentations

Introduction to NAND Flash Aware Hibernation-based Boot [ELC 2019]
Presenter: Kyungsik Lee, LG Electronics Summary: The slides cover existing boot time reduction and hibernation boot techniques and talks about new proposal for hibernation boot.


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Improving Embedded Systems Boot Time by Hibernation: An Overview on the State of the Art and a Case of Study on i.MX family of Processors [ELC 2019]
Presenter: Nicola La Gloria & Laura Nao, Kynetics LLC Summary: This Presentation will provide the current state of the kernel development of Hibernation on ARM architectures and details tests on the popular i.MX family of processors.


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Secure Updates for a Memory Constrained XIP System [ELC 2019]
Presenter: Vitaly Wool, Konsulko Summary: This session details updates using XIP stands for eXecute In Place – a technology that allows code to be executed directly from flash without copying the code to RAM first.


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Introduction to Memory Constrained XIP System . [ELC 2019]
Presenter: Vitaly Wool, Konsulko Summary: This presentation provides information about the execution of code directly from flash without copying the code to ram first.


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Secure Boot from A to Z [ELC 2018]
Presenter: Quentin Schulz & Mylune Josserand, Bootlin Summary: These slides introduce each and every link of the chain-of-trust from the boot ROM to filesystem, as well as the boot-loader and kernel with real life examples.


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BoF LinuxBoot: Linux as Firmware [ELC 2018]
Presenter: Chris Koch & Gan Shun, Google Summary: This presentation covers methods to efficient reduce drivers and firmware in a Linux system for efficient and faster boot.


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Marrying U-Boot, uEFI and grub2 [ELC 2017]
Presenter: Alexander Graf, SUSE Summary: This talk will take you through how ARM systems boot, what UEFI really means, how uEFI binaries interact with firmware and how this enables convergence of the Enterprise and Embedded markets.


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Improving the Bootup Speed of AOSP [ELC 2017]
Presenter: Bernhard Rosenkranzer, Linaro Summary: This presentation provides information about the approaches to improve time from cold start to UI.


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How to Boot Linux in One Second [ELC 2015 ELCE 2015]
Presenter: Jan Altenberg, Linutronix, GmbH Summary: This presentation covers some technical basic, optimizations in boot-loader, kernel, file-system and application. ARMv5 based device is taken as a use-case.


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Fastboot Tools and Techniques [ELC 2015]
Presenter: John Mehaffey, Mentor Graphics Summary: This presentation talks fastboot, a mechanism to boot the Embedded system faster.
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Tutorial: Useful systemd Functionalities Without systemd [ELCE 2015]
Presenter: Bartosz Golaszewski, BayLibre Summary: This presentation talks about ACME, sigrok and faster boot.
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Update on Boot Time Reduction Techniques with Figures [ELC 2014]
Presenter: Michael Opdenacker, Free Electrons Summary: This session covers extensive details about Linux boot time reduction methodology and resources.


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Linux Quickboot [ELC 2014]
Presenter: Tristan Lelong, Adeneo Embedded Summary: This session covers different mechanisms that exist to optimize boot time and ways to integrate them to achieve the best time on a custom board with fully loaded kernel running.


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12 Lessons Learnt in Boot Time Reduction [ELCE 2014]
Presenter: Andrew Murray, Embedded Bits Limited Summary: This presentation explains different ways to reduce boot time. Also describes pros and cons of those methods.


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Boot Time Optimizations [ELCE 2012]
Presenter: Alexandre Belloni, Adeneo Embedded Summary: This presentation talks about boot time optimizations, it's use cases, kernel compression, SMP and file systems.


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Snapshot Booting on Embedded Linux [ELC 2011]
Presenter: Kang Dongwook (ETRI) Summary: This presentation discusses about a fastboot mechanism called snapshot booting for achieving faster boot times.


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Faster Resume For More Energy Savings on MeeGo [ELC 2011]
Presenter: Yoshiya Hirase (Nokia) Summary: This presentation discusses about hibernation to handset devices for more energy saving.


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Linux without a boot loader [ELC 2010]
Presenter: Greg Ungerer Summary: This session explores options to boot Linux faster without the boot loader.


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The Right Approach to Minimal Boot Times [ELCE 2010]
Presenter: Andrew Murray Summary: This presentation gives information about principles behind boot time reduction, an approach to boot time reduction with a Case study on " MS7724 'Ecovec'".


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Barebox: Booting Linux Fast and Fancy [ELCE 2010]
Presenter: Robert Schwebel and Sascha Hauer Summary: This presentation provides information about Barebox project, it's history, development resources, hardware support and also Linux booting sequence.


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Lightweight Prelinker for Kernel Modules [ELCE 2010]
Presenter: Carmelo Amoroso and Rosario Contarino Summary: This presentation gives information about fast boot, kernel modules and Prelinker. It states pros and cons of Prelinker and it's strategy.


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Quantitative analysis of system initialization in embedded Linux systems [ELC 2009]
Presenter: Andre Puschmann Summary: This presentation analyzes time taken by different layers during boot time and initialization.


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Update on Boot Time Reduction Techniques [ELCE 2009]
Presenter: Michael Opdenacker Summary: This presentation discusses various techniques to reduce boot time such as LZO kernel decompression, jffs2, disabling console output, disabling auto IP config etc.


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How We Got a 3D Application Booting in 5 Seconds Under Linux [ELCE 2009]
Presenter: Grégory Clement Summary: This presentation talks about the boot process, time measurement techniques for optimizations.


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LKM Fast Loader Based on ELF Hash Table [ELCE 2009]
Presenter: Carmelo Amoroso Summary: This presentation discusses various strategies to speed-up kernel boot times with a modular kernel.


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Tools and Techniques for Reducing Bootup Time [ELCE 2008]
Presenter: Tim Bird Summary: This presentation discusses about the tools used such as grab-serial for system-wide measurement, bootchart, strace and process trace that can be used for boot time reduction.


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Bootup Technologies BOF [ELC 2007]
Presenter: Elias Kesh Summary: These slides discuss about different charters of Boot Technology Work Group (BTWG).


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Parallelizing Linux boot on CE Devices [ELCE 2007]
Presenter: Vitaly Wool Summary: These slides give information on boot up time, boot time profiling, sequence driver init, asynchronous driver init.
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Linux Suspend-to-Disk Objectives for Consumer Electronic Devices [ELCE 2007]
Presenter: Vitaly Wool Summary: This presentation discusses about Suspend-to-Disk(STD), compares with Suspend-to-Ram(STR), pros and cons of STD, and also use case for CE devices.


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Visualizing resource usage during initialization of embedded systems [ELC 2006]
Presenter: Matthew Klahn Summary: This presentation does a quantitative analysis of resource utilization during booting and initialization.


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Boot-Time Optimization - results of applying currently available solutions [ELC 2006]
Presenter: Prof. Nicholas Mc Guire Summary: The presentation discusses various optimizations that can be applied in the kernel for faster boot time.


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