BeagleBoard Fast Boot

Introduction This is a student project in EE 382N-4 (Advanced Embedded Systems Architecture) in Fall 2009 in the University of Texas at Austin. Project members are Hui Chen and Keji Ren. We achieved a three-second boot. Boot time is defined as the delay from turning on power to a shell welcome prompt (or a GUI). Please keep in mind all optimizations may only be applied to the reversion C board. Where to start Please read our slides to have a general idea on the techniques we used to achieve fast boot. Read on how to compile our modified code if you want to compile x-loader, u-boot, kernel and rootfs from source code. Or just down