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Re:Experiment in booting Linux fast by joezydeco on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @04:02PM (#6523490)
There's a great case study and documentation at eLinux.org.

This guy stripped a Renesas SH7724 boot-to-UI from 19.44 seconds down to 0.77.

http://elinux.org/images/f/f7/RightApproachMinimalBootTimes....

The tl;dr is that there's a lot in the kernel you can disable or strip away if your target system doesn't need it. The section on optimizing your application for block-oriented storage (like NOR flash) is a great one too.

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