Among the optimizations carried out to really speed-up their boot time were ensuring more asynchronous driver probing, only initializing a small amount of RAM at start and then after booted hot-plug the rest of it in parallel via systemd, optimized root file-system mounting, disabling unnecessary kernel modules, and similar approaches
How Intel’s Clear Linux Team Cut The Kernel Boot Time From 3 Seconds To 300 ms
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Michael Larabel
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