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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@kepstin.ca>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shemminger@vyatta.com
Subject: Re: long boot delays caused by 070ad7e7 floppy change
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:11:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ipe4bo5c.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzn+dW+Aj5T_vVP3XG3n3P+7mqJwGQLsWY14yEwduku5Q@mail.gmail.com> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Tue, 3 Jul 2012 13:05:51 -0700")

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
> Doing it asynchronously like Andi does helps a bit,

I think it would be more effective if the floppy driver initialized
earlier, I think I have some slowdown because it starts too late.

> but I suspect we
> could make the reset timeout shorter still just to make the initial
> "you don't have a floppy drive" code go faster.
>
> That said, why even compile in the floppy driver any more?

I used to boot simulators from make fdimage some time ago. Until
the kernels got too large :-)

But yes make isoimage is the way to go and

I'll remove it from my configs.

Thanks for the debugging.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-03 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-02 22:46 Andi Kleen
2012-07-02 23:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-03 13:47   ` Calvin Walton
2012-07-03 17:07     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-03 17:40       ` Calvin Walton
2012-07-03 17:50         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-03 17:57           ` Jiri Kosina
2012-07-03 18:45             ` Andi Kleen
2012-07-03 17:58           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-03 18:15             ` Jiri Kosina
2012-07-03 18:58               ` Andi Kleen
2012-07-03 19:12                 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-03 19:36                   ` Calvin Walton
2012-07-03 19:42                     ` Andi Kleen
2012-07-03 20:05                     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-03 20:11                       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2012-07-03 23:06                       ` Jiri Kosina
2012-07-03 19:40                   ` Andi Kleen
2012-07-03 23:01                     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-03 17:45       ` Andi Kleen

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