Re: boot_delay broken ?

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Tue Feb 26 2008 - 00:25:34 EST


On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:14:36 +0800 Dave Young wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The boot_delay switch seems to be behaving strangely in the
> > current -git. Setting it to =10 makes the output 'bursty'
> > it becomes slow for some printk's whilst others scroll by
> > at regular speed.
> > Setting it any higher than that seems to make it pause for
> > a really long time before it outputs any text at all.
>
> On my side there's this issue for a long time
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/8/79

[http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118655896515049&w=2]

You asked questions and they were answered. Perhaps you didn't like
the answers.

Here's a question for you. What kernel boot options did you use?
Specifically, for lpj= and boot_delay= ?

> >
> > x86 timer changes perhaps ?


---
~Randy
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/