2.6.33 fails to find cpu firmware

2.6.33 fails to find cpu firmware

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings a;;

2.6.33-rc2 isn't terribly stable here, but the first problem is .6 seconds 
into the boot, it hangs for 1 minute waiting on the amd cpu firmware, which I 
don't believe it ever finds, it just times out and goes on.  This machine 
runs fairly well without that even for a cold boot.

I assume this is because the root filesystem with /lib/firmware is not yet 
available, and that if this file was supplied in the initrd file, this would 
go away.

I've studied the manpage for mkinitrd, but the precise option to do this 
preload escapes me.

Suggested syntax please if this is in fact a fix for this.

Thanks.

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Re: 2.6.33 fails to find cpu firmware

[Bill Davidsen]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings a;;
> 
> 2.6.33-rc2 isn't terribly stable here, but the first problem is .6 seconds 
> into the boot, it hangs for 1 minute waiting on the amd cpu firmware, which I 
> don't believe it ever finds, it just times out and goes on.  This machine 
> runs fairly well without that even for a cold boot.
> 
> I assume this is because the root filesystem with /lib/firmware is not yet 
> available, and that if this file was supplied in the initrd file, this would 
> go away.
> 
> I've studied the manpage for mkinitrd, but the precise option to do this 
> preload escapes me.
> 
But the root should be mounted before firmware, I'm looking at my messages log 
and everything including swap seems to be there before the firmware loader is 
called. That's on a 2.6.31 kernel, but still...

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