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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Arun Thomas <arun.thomas@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: E6850 has an 8+ minute delay during boot
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:18:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4762586F.8090603@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a8cbed90712140201r6cb287d9w99cc1210c68e8e60@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/14/2007 11:01 AM, Arun Thomas wrote:
> On Dec 14, 2007 4:53 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:10:31 -0500 "Arun Thomas" <arun.thomas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>

some time before:
[   20.101392] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine..
5989.01 BogoMIPS (lpj=11978034)

>>> [   20.185881] Initializing CPU#1
>>> [  527.926587] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine..
>>> 200566.59 BogoMIPS (lpj=401133185)
>> Silly question: is that delay actually observeable by a human,
>> or is it just a leap in the printk timestamping?
> 
> Good question. Yes, it's human-observable. The kernel "hangs" for  8
> mins by my wall clock, and then it continues to boot up.

By the way, the same processor here, but
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5984.76 BogoMIPS (lpj=11969527)
for the second core.

The calibration is some kind of weird there.

If any info needed from me, feel free to ask (x86_64 here). No problems with it
here AFAIK.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-14 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-14  9:10 PROBLEM: E6850 has an 8+ minute delay during boot Arun Thomas
2007-12-14  9:53 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-14 10:01   ` Arun Thomas
2007-12-14 10:18     ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2007-12-14 10:43       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-12-14 11:15         ` Arun Thomas
2007-12-14 14:44         ` Mark Lord
2007-12-14 19:01         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-15  0:00           ` Arun Thomas
2007-12-15  0:38             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-14 14:38 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-15  6:07 ` Len Brown
2007-12-16  5:38   ` Arun Thomas

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