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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Reduce panic timeout from 180s to 10s
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> > > 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?

That is why we made it pseries specific in the past. Almost all our
boxes are on a virtual console and the 3 minutes of pausing just hurt
our uptimes.

If other platform maintainers prefer to keep the 3 minute pause, then
we just change the PowerNV platform.

Anton