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Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Reduce panic timeout from 180s to 10s
From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 16:52:33 -0500
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On Tue, 2013-10-01 at 18:39 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 09:17:19PM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> > 
> > We made this change to pseries in 2011 and I think it makes
> > sense to do the same on powernv.
> 
> I'd vote we set it to 10s for all 64-bit machines in
> arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c.

Why is 64-bit relevant?  And wouldn't such a short delay be a problem if
the crash is displayed on a monitor?

-Scott