From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933504Ab2GCULt (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2012 16:11:49 -0400 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:3465 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933424Ab2GCULq (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2012 16:11:46 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,315,1320652800"; d="scan'208";a="173086410" From: Andi Kleen To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Calvin Walton , Jiri Kosina , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shemminger@vyatta.com Subject: Re: long boot delays caused by 070ad7e7 floppy change References: <20120702224648.GA20361@tassilo.jf.intel.com> <1341323230.3292.10.camel@nayuki.kepstin.ca> <1341337257.2406.1.camel@nayuki.kepstin.ca> <20120703185808.GM11413@one.firstfloor.org> <1341344200.2413.4.camel@nayuki.kepstin.ca> Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:11:43 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Tue, 3 Jul 2012 13:05:51 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds 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