[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Bug#401352: Significant delays when booting installer in vmware [486 kernel]



On Saturday 02 December 2006 21:09, Frans Pop wrote:
> Since d-i switched to 2.6.18 I'm seeing significant delays during boot
> of the installer in two places.

Using git-bisect I have traced the issue to the following upstream commit.
Note that this commit was part of a longer series.

commit 539eb11e6e904f2cd4f62908cc5e44d724879721
Author: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Date:   Mon Jun 26 00:25:10 2006 -0700

    [PATCH] Time: i386 Conversion - part 2: Rework TSC Support

    As part of the i386 conversion to the generic timekeeping infrastructure, this
    introduces a new tsc.c file.  The code in this file replaces the TSC
    initialization, management and access code currently in timer_tsc.c (which
    will be removed) that we want to preserve.

    The code also introduces the following functionality:

    o tsc_khz: like cpu_khz but stores the TSC frequency on systems that do not
      change TSC frequency w/ CPU frequency
    o check/mark_tsc_unstable: accessor/modifier flag for TSC timekeeping
      usability
    o minor cleanups to calibration math.

    This patch also includes a one line __cpuinitdata fix from Zwane Mwaikambo.

    Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Attachment: pgplYIlXnF4Rf.pgp
Description: PGP signature


Reply to: