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Subject: [ts-7000] How fast can I really make fast booting w/ USB and hotplug?
From: "Blair" <>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:21:16 -0000
On a 7350, I've just gone through a hacking session to get hotplug working 
along with USB audio drivers.  There are many questions here.

1) Why does the 7350 use linuxrc-fastgui not linuxrc-fastboot?  The former 
works but the latter does not and hangs.  The differences appear to be quite 
subtle.  But no matter.

2) Hot plugging does work via the mdev Busybox utility but apparently you have 
to have loaded the USB drivers first and the magic incantation:

 echo /sbin/mdev > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug

Needs to be in the script after /dev/tssdcard4 is mounted.  I think it needs a 
file from /etc to work and /etc is on tssdcard4.

3) I also found out that the check-usb-update script unloads a couple of 
drivers which eventually shuts down the USB hub on the 7350.  Commenting those 
three lines out is required.  But something else appears to be going on in this 
script because hotplugging doesn't work if I don't run this script even if I 
call usb-init.

4) Finally, I have to sleep for 6 seconds before /dev is fully populated if I'm 
going to be running an app that needs something like USB audio.  So I'm now at 
the point where what was 1.3-1.5 seconds to boot is now 7 or 8 seconds to boot. 
 Is there a way to make this faster?  Would building the USB drivers I'm using 
into the kernel help?




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