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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>
To: "Andrew B. Arthur" <arthur99@global2000.net>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: BootX slowdown
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:42:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000120164244.018605@mailhost.mipsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38870F4A.44918575@global2000.net>


On Thu, Jan 20, 2000, Andrew B. Arthur <arthur99@global2000.net> wrote:

>>
>>  - boot with BootX 1.2b3 in the exact same configuration that usually
>> triggers the slowdown problem. You may eventually boot single user or
>> even "init=/bin/sh" so that it doesn't take for ever to reach bash prompt.
>
>Running on a PowerMacintosh 4400/200. BootX 1.2b3 and BootX 1.1.3
>results listed below. Linux hagoleche.aarthur.bsdonline.org 2.2.14 #1
>Sun Jan 16 02:39:35 EST 2000 ppc unknown

It appears that on some machines, the ICTC is not 0 when booting from
MacOS. I'll add code to reset it in a next kernel. This may or may not be
the cause of your problem (this issue was spotted on a G3-based powerbook).


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2000-01-20 13:36 ` BootX slowdown Andrew B. Arthur
2000-01-20 15:42   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]

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