I just timed it: 59 seconds for my Raspberry Pi to boot, 33 of which is waiting for my keyboard firmware to initialize. That’s just absurd.

¯_(ツ)_/¯ It’s a funky mechanical thing running QMK, but I have two others that fit that description which don’t behave like this.

For sure. The pi progresses normally until it prints that it’s initializing the keyboard, at which point the keyboard spends ~30 seconds beeping.

Unrelated: my first response shows a rendering bug on your site: it’s dropping a backslash. Hard to mix markdown and genuine plain text.