I am developing software for a VIA-EPIA-MII 12000 used in a CarPC project. At the moment I am using Fedora as operating system, directfb to access the screen and some self developed applications for audio, video and mapping. The actual boot-up times are about 20 seconds from the 2.5'' IDE drive.
I would like to boot from a CompactFlash card in order to speed up the boot process and get a robuster sytem.
So I as a newie I have some questions:
[1] What are the tipical boot up times I can expect (striped down linux kernel, minimal startup scripts, no X11)? [2] If sombody from the community that has the same board (but possibly another revision) and gives me an working image to try how likely do I end up with a brick? [3] Any helps, tips, references to help me (I tried to google but did not find a lot, the actual documentation on LinuxBIOS is also quite confusing)?
Best regards - Martin Portmann