Boot poster challenge

[Mark Heslep]

Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> Mark Heslep writes:
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>> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
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>>> Arjan van de Ven writes:
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>>> Add 30 seconds if you're booting off aic79xx.o
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>>> Why does loading that gawd-awful microcode take so long?
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>>> I don't notice ANY delay when booting XP on the same box.
>>>
>>> It shouldn't take more than one or two seconds to initialize the 
>>> SCSI card.
>>>
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>> Same with mptscsi / mptbase here. At least 30 (x2 - once in the bios 
>> post and again when the kernel driver loads)
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> Well, BIOS POST you can't do anything about.
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Unless we can use Linux BIOS.  I've got a couple scsi boxes that are 
candidates.

> But XP initializes an Adaptec SCSI controller in, at most, 1-2 seconds.
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> No way did Microsoft write the SCSI driver code themselves.  It had to 
> have come from Adaptec, at some point down the line.
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> So, if Adaptec is, supposedly, gung-ho about Linux these days, why 
> can't they produce a version of aic7xxx.ko that doesn't give you 
> plenty of time to brew a pot of coffee, before it's done whatever the 
> hell it's doing?

Dont know if  LSI Logic / Symbios is as eager to please.

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