Title:    Boot Time Reduction Training

Materials:
    Will be released under a free documentation license.
    They will be extensions and updates to the materials
    on https://bootlin.com/doc/training/boot-time

Duration:
    2 days, 40% of lectures, 60% of practical labs

Required equipment:
    Training room with video projector
    PC computers with at least 8 GB of RAM, with
    Ubuntu 18.04 installed in a free partition of at least 30 GB,
    connected to the Internet

Trainer:
    Michael Opdenacker, who is probably the Bootlin engineer
    who has done the biggest number of boot time reduction
    projects. Michael is also the author of Bootlin's
    boot time reduction training materials, and has given
    several talks about boot time reduction (and its
    prerequisite, size reduction) at international
    conferences.

Outline:

- Measuring boot time
- Reducing time in system scripts
- Reducing application startup time
- Reducing kernel boot time
  Reducing kernel size for faster loading
- Reducing storage boot time (part of kernel time)
  by choosing the best filesystems and tuning them.
- Bootloader optimizations and even
  skipping the bootloader.

- Practical labs on each of the above topics, with ARM boards
  (such as BeagleBone Black, or another similar board, if accepted
  by the customer).
  We will take an existing demo system (built with the Buildroot
  build system and will progressively optimize its boot
  time, practising with the most useful techniques,
  starting with the last steps (applications and user-space)
  and finishing with the parts that shouldn't be customized
  too early (kernel and bootloader).