linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.33 fails to find cpu firmware

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Date:	Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:47:05 -0500
From:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
To:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...izon.net>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.33 fails to find cpu firmware

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...

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
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