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Mikhail Zaturenskiy wrote:
>> This is very interesting. I recently experienced a similar problem when
>> upgrading from 2.6.26-rc6 to 2.6.31-rc1 (torvalds mainline kernel).
>>
>> I didn't had the time to figure out what was happening, so I went back to
>> 2.6.26-rc6. Just for the test, could you try to go back to 2.6.26 and see if
>> the problem remains?
> 
> Frank! That worked like a charm! I downloaded linux-2.6.26 source from
> git.kernel.org, inserted the config options previously mentioned,
> compiled ok, keeping U-Boot ramdisk and my DTS same it booted right up
> and no more "slow motion" issue.

If you have time, could you bisect to see when the slowdown was introduced?

-Scott