[arch-projects] [mkinitcpio][PATCH] init: add timestamp at start of initramfs if binary exists

[Tom Gundersen]

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, is there anything else that reads RD_TIMESTAMP (like
> Auke's boot chart)? That's part of why I'm hesistant to generalize it as a
> timestamp hook.

Not that I know of. As far as I know, the RD_* interface is only
implemented by dracut and systemd, but it is meant to be generic[0] so
anyone could in principle start using it.

Btw, once we have a systemd-tools package I'll probably also add this
(optionally) to initscripts so we can measure bootuptime there in the
same way as systemd currently does.

-t

[0] hence the RamDisk prefix, rather than "dracut" or "systemd"