BlackBird Boot Times
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There are some  rumours about that. Yes, the BlackBird  is a thing that
resembles the  old IBM  workstations as  much as  it can.  So it  has a
service CPU (and ARM thingy is here)  which has to be booted before the
actual system on the main CPU.

The time from the Petiboot menu (where the OS to be booted is selected)
to the MATE desktop is is less than 5 second.

The whole boot  procedure (including boot of the  service CPU, hardware
test and so on) is 4:40. If  the service CPU is already booted and only
hardware testing is done (i.e. in the  case of reboot) then the time is
something about 2:20.

So the worst case is 4:40. It's a  long time when it is compared with a
PC but  a time comparable  with actual workstation  (IBM Intellistation
POWER or similar).

My SGI O2  (which has no service  CPU) boots in 60 second,  my SGI Indy
needs about 2 minutes.



But how  often do you  boot your  system? Once in  a day? DOes  it make
sense to measure it?