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amelius on Oct 23, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Raspberry Pi 3 Fastboot – Less Than 2 Seconds

If only the init system was lazy, i.e. running parts of the boot sequence only when required.

stjohnswarts on Oct 23, 2021 | [–]

It's very possible in linux. Modules can be loaded and unloaded for some kinds of hardware. I don't know if that's true for rpi though.

Denvercoder9 on Oct 24, 2021 | [–]

systemd fully supports that.

cztomsik on Oct 25, 2021 | [–]

I believe it was meant to be ironic comment, pointing at systemd

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