Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: long boot delays caused by 070ad7e7 floppy change | Date | Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:11:43 -0700 |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes: > > Doing it asynchronously like Andi does helps a bit,
I think it would be more effective if the floppy driver initialized earlier, I think I have some slowdown because it starts too late.
> but I suspect we > could make the reset timeout shorter still just to make the initial > "you don't have a floppy drive" code go faster. > > That said, why even compile in the floppy driver any more?
I used to boot simulators from make fdimage some time ago. Until the kernels got too large :-)
But yes make isoimage is the way to go and
I'll remove it from my configs.
Thanks for the debugging.
-Andi
-- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only
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