As you know, usually boot of Linux system takes time.
I work on boot improvements for Linux. I would like to offer demo of improved Linux boot time with streaming application for dm365.
Streaming of encoded data starts at about 4.30 seconds of Linux kernel uptime.This time doesn't include boot time of boot loader and loading of kernel image, with is some seconds, depending from configuration. This boot time is yet far from fastest boot time. The fastest boot time I ever achieved is 3 sec from power on till streaming.
To run demo:
Download uImage from http://www.linux-davinci.info/data/boot/uImage-dm365-fast-stream
Define IP on PC as 10.0.0.1
Start TCP stream capture on PC: nc -l 12345 > test.m4v
boot dm356 device with the uImage with empty bootargs.
Application on the device starts to send TCP and UDP streams to 10.0.0.1:12345
Play test.m4v with mplayer, vlc, ffplay or arother player.
(I haven't available player for planing this stream directly from network)
See also: Booting
Linux kernel in 0.5 sec on DM365