Boot Comparison

The Project Trailblazer engineers developed a target comparison table shown in Table 4.3. This table compares the “power on to bash prompt” timing and target root filesystem size for the four platforms involved in Project Trailblazer.

Table 4.3. Project Trailblazer Target Comparison
Platform Power On to bash Prompt Time Target root Filesystem Size
Embedded Planet RPX-CLLF, PowerPC 860 27 seconds, including 6-second TFTP download of the kernel and RAM disk 4612KB
Brightstar Engineering MediaEngine, StrongArm1100 13 seconds, including 6-second TFTP download of the kernel and RAM disk 4232KB
Tri-M MZ104, Pentium (100MHz) 29 seconds, including 17-second PC BIOS completion time 4888KB
Micron COTS PC, Celeron (400MHz) 27 seconds, including ...

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