Here are Bootchart results indicating the boot speed from the Linux 3.0 kernel through the latest Linux 3.6 development kernel.

These concise Bootchart results are from an AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer system with 8GB of RAM and an OCZ SSD. I'm in the process of running a number of new AMD Bulldozer Linux tests for publishing in future articles and along the way Bootchart was installed for one of the comparisons.

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