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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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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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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