linux-kernel - Re: PROBLEM: E6850 has an 8+ minute delay during boot

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Message-ID: <4762586F.8090603@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:18:23 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	Arun Thomas <arun.thomas@...il.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: E6850 has an 8+ minute delay during boot

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