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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:23:58 +0200
From: Felix Radensky <felix@embedded-sol.com>
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Subject: Re: Long boot delay on 460EX with 2.6.28-rc8
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Stefan Roese wrote:
> On Friday 19 December 2008, Felix Radensky wrote:
>   
>> Thanks a lot to everyone who replied. I've managed to identify the cause
>> of the delay. The board is equipped with 256 MiB Samsung NAND flash.
>> Since NAND support is a must for this platform, I've intergated the ndfc
>> driver recently posted by Sean McLennan. With this driver enabled the delay
>> is present, without it messages appear on the console immediately.
>>
>> Is this an expected behavior - detection of 256 MiB NAND flash
>> takes around 20 seconds. The ndfc driver works fine after boot.
>>     
>
> No, 20 seconds is definitely too long. Something must be wrong with the ndfc 
> driver or the NAND dts entries.
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan
>   
Hi, Sean

Do you have any ideas what can cause such delay ?

Thanks.

Felix.